This weekend saw an accident that killed two occupants in a Tesla Model S reportedly driving in Autopilot mode, reenergizing legal issues once relegated to science fiction: When a self-driving car crashes, who is liable — the driver or the tech? As vehicles hit the road with more sophisticated driver-assistance features, disputes about safety and […]
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A materials scientist called by a cancer patient in her trial against a talc supplier told a California jury Friday that asbestos often grows cheek by jowl with the once-desirable soft mineral and that when it does “you cannot avoid it.” Materials scientist William Longo of Materials Analytical Services LLC closed out the first week
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Peloton markets its Tread+ machine for family-friendly exercise, but the treadmill contains design flaws that make it particularly dangerous for young children, including one child who was killed after becoming trapped under the machine, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in California federal court. Peloton Interactive Inc.’s Tread+ has been the subject of
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A pathologist told a California state court jury Wednesday that a mesothelioma patient exposed herself several thousandfold beyond the normal background amount of asbestos with her daily application of talcum powder, but had no way of knowing it. Dr. Theresa Emory appeared as the first witness in the in-person Los Angeles County Superior Court talc
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Bayer AG paid a man who alleged the weedkiller Roundup caused his cancer to appeal the dismissal of one of his claims in hopes of creating an appellate precedent that could jeopardize thousands of similar cases across the country, third-party attorneys said in a letter to the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday. The alleged “pay-to-appeal scheme”
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday evening that use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine should resume after “a thorough safety review” was conducted during a 10-day pause to investigate a rare but serious side effect. The lift followed a vote by members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory
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Linda Zimmerman, a retired California schoolteacher living with terminal malignant mesothelioma, went to an in-person trial Tuesday against talc supplier Whittaker Clark & Daniels Inc. Zimmerman used different brands of talc powder from 1954-2009 and had no idea that the talc she was still using in July of 2018 contained asbestos. Zimmerman’s stepfather had worked
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A Texas federal judge ruled that a Korean unit of LG Electronics can’t use a jurisdictional argument to escape a suit alleging an exploding smartphone ended a professional basketball player’s career, saying the company should have known its product would end up in Texas. U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant denied a bid by LG
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A Los Angeles judge banned Kandypens from marketing its electronic cigarette products to teens and children and ordered the vaping company to pay a $1.2 million penalty for its past marketing to minors, the Los Angeles city attorney announced Monday. The $1.2M penalty includes $600,000 under the STAKE Act, $300,000 under the state’s Unfair Competition
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A California jury handed down a $4.8 million verdict Monday against talc supplier Whittaker Clark & Daniels after connecting the company to a 78-year-old man’s mesothelioma diagnosis. Vietnam War veteran Willie McNeal Jr. suffers from pleural mesothelioma, a cancer of the lungs caused by asbestos exposure, and convinced the jury to link Whittaker to his
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