As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog, Hunton product liability and mass tort attorneys Elizabeth Reese and Alexandra Brisky Cunningham and insurance attorney Latosha Ellis recently published an article in Risk Management discussing key lessons from Peloton’s Tread+ Recall.
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On August 16, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Pearson plc, a publicly traded British multinational educational publishing and services company, agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty in a settlement related to charges that Pearson
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The Children’s Advertising Review Unit, a part of BBB National Programs, released its revised Children’s Advertising Guidelines earlier this month. These new Guidelines will go into effect in January 2022 and contain some notable changes.
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In May of 2021, the CDC issued guidance that fully vaccinated individuals could stop wearing masks and observing social distancing in most indoor and outdoor settings. However, in the following months, the delta variant of COVID-19 has presented a resurgence
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Environmental justice is a central focus of the Biden administration’s environmental agenda. In the wake of issuance of new and enhanced EJ policies by both the federal government and states, it behooves lawyers in multiple disciplines to account for EJ
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In response to a challenge by animal rights organization Animal Outlook, the NAD has determined that Butterball, LLC should discontinue several ad claims and slogans for its “all natural” turkeys.
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The CPSC (by a 3-1 vote) recently filed an administrative complaint against Amazon.com, Inc. seeking to force the characterization of Amazon as a “distributor” of products under the Consumer Product Safety Act. If the CPSC prevails on that characterization, Amazon
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On July 29, 2021, the US Department of Labor filed a final rule rescinding the Trump-era “Joint Employer Status Under the Fair Labor Standards Act” rule, which went into effect on March 16, 2020.
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused supply chain interruptions across industries, from toilet paper and cleaning supplies, to red meat. Although most states have resumed close to “normal” capacity and operations, the nation still faces an historic and unprecedented lumber shortage. As
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In an unprecedented and broad action, EPA has proposed a rule that would require reporting of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances by manufacturers and importers under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Continue Reading Do You Import Products for Commercial Sale? Have You Heard About the ‘Forever Chemicals?’
