A federal judge in Washington held that a paraplegic woman's claim that her 2023 Volkswagen Tiguan's seat heater was defectively designed may go to trial, while dismissing her failure-to-warn claim and partially excluding her expert's testimony.
A federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania partially blocked plaintiff's engineering expert in a wrongful-death suit over a Bobst die-cutting machine that crushed a worker to death, ruling the expert's malfunction theory too...
The Ohio First District Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s judgments against Dr. Abubakar Atiq Durrani and Center for Advanced Spine Technologies, Inc., after a consolidated jury trial found the defendants liable to four plaintiffs who alleged...
The Ninth Circuit reversed summary judgment for Robinson Helicopter Company, holding that the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 does not require replacement parts to be "substantively altered" from the original design to restart the statute of...
The Utah Supreme Court reversed a district court ruling that shielded a construction company from liability after a fatal underride trailer crash, holding unanimously that a broad statutory duty to operate safe equipment on roadways already applied and that...
The Mississippi Supreme Court has reinstated summary judgment in favor of general surgeon Jeffrey Doolittle in a wrongful-death medical malpractice case, ruling that the trial court properly excluded the plaintiff's proposed expert witness. The court held...
Albertsons has reached an agreement in principle with a coalition of state attorneys general to pay up to $773,787,782.93 to eligible state and local governments to resolve claims over its alleged role in the opioid epidemic, California Attorney General Rob...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana denied Amazon's bid to dismiss warranty and federal consumer-protection claims brought by a Louisiana woman whose Baseus magnetic power bank caught fire in her vehicle, while dismissing her negligence...
A federal judge in South Florida held that genuine factual disputes over whether a Zimmer Biomet spinal disc was defectively manufactured — and whether that defect caused a patient's injuries — must go to a jury.
Judge Amos L. Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas denied Toyota’s motions to dismiss and strike class allegations in a putative nationwide class action regarding defective door lock actuators, resolving key procedural hurdles for Rule 23 certification.
The Eastern District of Michigan has denied a motion to sever claims in a multi-year, statewide class action involving defective General Motors valve-train systems, keeping the litigation involving Active Fuel Management and Dynamic Fuel Management engines...
A federal judge ruled that Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator owners cannot pursue unjust enrichment claims over a paint-bubbling corrosion defect because their own warranties explicitly excluded the very damage they alleged — but the court allowed plaintiffs to...
A federal district court in Washington has granted summary judgment to two shipyard defendants in a maritime negligence suit brought by the widow of a worker who died of mesothelioma, ruling that the plaintiff failed to provide admissible evidence linking...