Product warnings in English only
Should a product manufacturer be held liable for not warning in other languages that are foreseeably spoken/read by some of its end users? How about if it marketed its product in some of those...
View Article“Colorado jury awards $11.5M to family in helmet lawsuit”
“A Colorado jury has awarded $11.5 million in a lawsuit originally brought against helmet maker Riddell and several high school administrators and football coaches over brain injuries suffered by a...
View ArticleSuit: lily-seller should have warned of toxicity to cats
“The flower was packaged with a warning about not being for human consumption and about the risk of staining clothing, but there was nothing about potential harm to cats, said [Charley Gee, a]...
View ArticleIreland: judge rebukes “compensation culture gone mad”
A court has awarded costs against a Dublin family that sued a restaurant for not warning that if they allowed their two-year-old to put her finger down the metal lid of a sugar dispenser, she might...
View Article“Family sues Bronx Zoo after child swallows souvenir penny”
“Ethan’s mother, Kelly Yi, said there was no warning about the dangers of swallowing the coins.” [NJ.com] Tweet Tags: failure to warn, recreation “Family sues Bronx Zoo after child swallows souvenir...
View ArticleDon’t get cozy with a laptop adapter and fall asleep
A California woman claims in her lawsuit that her “husband was using his Apple laptop when [she] fell asleep with her arm on top of the adapter for approximately 40 minutes. She woke up groggy, felt...
View ArticleJapan: families sue over failure to warn of volcano eruption
“Twelve people from five families of those killed in the 2014 eruption of Mount Ontake are set to sue the state and the Nagano Prefectural Government, demanding a total of 150 million yen in...
View ArticleConnecticut SC backs $41.7M verdict against school for failing to warn of...
The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled “that schools have a duty to warn parents and students of potential hazards associated with field trips – in particular, dangerous insect bites – and let stand a...
View ArticleBears in Yellowstone: eat, sue, warn
“The decision was reversed on appeal, but it spooked the Park Service into trying to lawyer-proof Yellowstone. Walker’s folks insisted that there was no way their son could have known about the danger...
View ArticleRead the label: part N in a series
A Fayette County, Pennsylvania woman whose use of a hair relaxer left her partially bald admitted that she hadn’t read the instructions, but said Optimum Salon Care Defy Breakage No-Lye Relaxer is in...
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