Individual product liability filings increased to 5,692 in 2025, a 31% year-over-year increase and the highest annual total in a decade, according to a new report from legal analytics platform Lex Machina.
A California woman has filed a class action lawsuit against the Campbell’s Co. over its potato chip brand, questioning whether the snack’s advertised use of avocado oil is a misrepresentation.
Fruit and vegetable producer Taylor Farms and fast-food chain Taco Bell have retained two Am Law 100 law firms to defend them against more than a dozen lawsuits regarding a cyclospora outbreak allegedly caused by shredded iceberg lettuce.
A federal judge has ruled against a German tourist who sued a New York City taqueria complaining the restaurant sold him salsa that was dangerously spicy.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday by the city of San Francisco alleges that several major food companies used “deceitful tactics it inherited from the Big Tobacco industry” to market harmful ultra-processed foods and to "aggressively sell those products to children.”
The Labubus are so popular that the elflike plush dolls produced by Chinese toy company Pop Mart have inspired a surge in knockoffs. While the intellectual property issues involving the Labubus aren’t exactly novel, the increasing acceptance of “dupes” is a new trend.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to remove, for now, three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, pointing to its prior emergency docket order allowing the firing of board members of two other independent agencies.
A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a New York gun nuisance law that imposes liability for injuries stemming from misconduct in the sale or marketing of firearms.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether an internet service provider can be liable for materially contributing to copyright infringement if it failed to terminate internet access for customers known to be pirating music.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that Mexico cannot sue U.S. gun companies for aiding the flow of guns to drug cartels because its factual allegations fell short.
A record number of eight- and nine-figure jury verdicts are evidence of an “indisputable trend,” according to the CEO of a communications and research company that compiled the figures.
FDA v. Wages and White Lion Investments, which was argued before the high court in December, focused on whether the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it set aside FDA denial orders banning the flavored vapes as arbitrary and capricious.
A decision by the Ohio Supreme Court on the state’s product-liability law is good news for three national pharmaceutical chains ordered to pay more than $650 million for contributing to the opioid epidemic.
