Topic
Product Defect
59 published works
Aviation Law Monitor
Cessna Caravan Trial Begins 10 Years After Crash
By Mike Danko
More than 30 Cessna 208 and 208B Caravans have crashed when their wings iced up in flight. Victims’ families have filed many product defect lawsuits against Cessna, claiming that Cessna…
Drug & Device Law
On Getting Jobbed
By Bexis
Paradise this one isn’t. The way we look at it the defendant got jobbed. It was a ridiculous case (at least as a product liability matter) to start with. The…
Class Action & Mass Torts
California Court of Appeal Clarifies Breach of Warranty Law in Class Actions and Vacates Order Certifying Class of Consumers in American Honda Motor Company, Inc. v. Superior Court
In American Honda Motor Company, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 199 Cal. App. 4th 1367 (2011), the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District clarified…
North Carolina Product Liability Blog
Oral Contraceptives Recalled
By Law Office of D. Hardison Wood
Qualitest Pharmaceuticals issued a recall of several lots of birth control pills There was a packaging error that could leave women unprotected. The recall is being implemented because of a…
Life Sciences Legal Update
Recall Does Not Equal Defect: Another Court Gets It Right
As every product liability lawyer knows, a client's voluntary recall of a product will result in lawsuits. Plaintiffs' lawyers for pharmaceutical product liability cases love using the fact of a…
North Carolina Product Liability Blog
Police warn of defect in gun
By Law Office of D. Hardison Wood
This past week a little boy in Raleigh was accidentally shot by a pellet gun. The child's grandfather was checking to ensure the safety was on, and by accident hit…
North Carolina Product Liability Blog
Car Manufacturers Issue More Recalls
By Law Office of D. Hardison Wood
Ford has announced that is it is recalling 400,000 Windstar models in "cold weather" states to resolve a bracket issue which could cause the vehicle to become unstable and the…
North Carolina Product Liability Blog
$14 million award in tire case
By Law Office of D. Hardison Wood
A jury awarded a multi-million dollar verdict to 3 sons of a San Diego couple who were killed in an accident in 2006 in Arizona. The three boys were the…
North Carolina Product Liability Blog
Toyota to Face Class Action
By Law Office of D. Hardison Wood
District Judge James Selna of Santa Ana, CA made the tentative ruling from Nov 19, final allowing class action suits against Toyota to continue. Toyota and its attorneys tried to have…
North Carolina Product Liability Blog
Nissan – Another recall
By Law Office of D. Hardison Wood
Japan's third largest automaker, Nissan, has issued a recall of approximately 605,000 vehicles because of flaws in the steering-column shaft and batteries. The recalls include about 303,000 Frontier pickup trucks,…