Emily Field

The federal government on Friday told a California federal court that a $90 million suit filed by baby sleep sack maker Dreamland Baby Co. over comments made by Richard Trumka Jr., former commissioner for the Consumer Product Safety Commission over weighted baby sleep products should be tossed since the statements were true and made without malice.

A group of attorneys general of eight states, including Arkansas and Arizona, on Wednesday hit OpenAI with suits alleging that the company knowingly misled the public about the safety risks of its ChatGPT artificial intelligence bot.

Another survivor of the April 2025 shooting at Florida State University that killed two people and left five injured joined the pile of suits facing OpenAI over ChatGPT, saying in her own federal complaint that artificial intelligence fed the shooter's delusions and violence.

Costco has told a Washington federal court that the very sources cited in a recent proposed class action undercut claims that grain-free dog food contributes to canine heart disease and that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration hasn't found such a connection or issued a recall.

The D.C. Circuit Tuesday backed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's designation of the two most common forms of forever chemicals as hazardous substances under federal Superfund law, rejecting arguments from industry that the agency didn't have a legal basis to do so.

A New Jersey woman said in a suit filed Friday in Garden State federal court that the water tank in a personal steam sauna suddenly exploded while she was using it, which caused severe and painful burns.

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Social media companies are headed back to court over allegations that their platforms are designed to hook young people, while OpenAI faces claims that ChatGPT has meted out harmful health advice and helped users plan mass shootings. Here's what's on the radar for product liability for the rest of 2026.

Parents of four children who died by suicide after heavy use of social media platforms are suing Meta, Google, TikTok and others in Delaware state court alleging that they pushed features that promoted self-harm and stole their loved ones' childhoods.

The $5.5 billion global deal over talc ovarian cancer allows women to move past recent court setbacks requiring them to provide experts who can show a causal link between their disease and use of talc, and for defendant J&J to close a decade of litigation that included judicially criticized gambits to spin off liability through bankruptcy maneuvers.