WASHINGTON — In a victory to generic pharmaceutical companies, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that state design-defect laws that impose a duty on generic drug makers to either change their labeling in violation of federal law or pull the ...

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A California judge has thrown out a $6.5 million product liability verdict against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, deciding that a key expert witness should not have been allowed to testify that the diabetes drug Actos was the cause of a man’s bladder ...

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WASHINGTON – Deciding where the preemptive effect of federal rules governing drug manufacturing ends and states’ ability to impose liability on drug makers begins has never been an easy task — not even for the justices of the U.S. Supreme ...

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Medical device makers could not be held strictly liable for an alleged design defect in a surgically implanted prosthetic device, the California Court of Appeal has ruled in affirming a summary judgment.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether federal law preempts state law design defect claims targeting generic pharmaceutical products.

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The standards of the federal Vaccine Act applied to bar the wrongful death claims of the parents of a child who died after receiving a measles vaccine made by Merck, the 9th Circuit has ruled in affirming a summary judgment.

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Crocs did not have a duty to warn that its resin sandals posed a risk to young children riding escalators, a U.S. District Court in Massachusetts has ruled in granting summary judgment.

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Federal law preempted Michigan product liability actions that alleged injuries from the psoriasis drug Raptiva, the 6th Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment.

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An expert in a product liability case was not qualified to testify that the plaintiff’s injuries were caused by a defective seatbelt buckle in a Ford automobile, the 10th Circuit has ruled in reversing a $4.5 million judgment.

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The Mississippi Supreme Court yesterday overturned a $15 million asbestos verdict against Chevron Phillips, concluding that the jury heard inadmissible evidence overestimating the amount of asbestos-containing Flosal that a retired oil rig worker handled during his career.

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