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House Democrats introduce legislation to increase oversight of drug compounders

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn) and Nita Lowery (D-N.Y.) have introduced a bill (H.R. 6638) that would increase government oversight of compounded drugs, like those purportedly implicated in a fungal meningitis outbreak that has caused 36 deaths and 541 illnesses nationwide

CPSC reports fatalities related to portable bed rails

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently released a review of adult portable bed rail-related deaths and injuries between January 2003 and September 2012

Putative class alleges fraud in mascara marketing claims

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

A California resident has filed a putative class action against Coty Inc., alleging that it falsely advertises one of its cosmetic products, Rimmel London Lash Accelerator Mascara with Grow-Lash Complex, as a product that can lengthen and thicken eyelashes in just 30 days

CPSC issues proposed rules on bedside sleepers, hand-held baby carriers

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has proposed safety standards for bedside sleepers and hand-held baby carriers, incorporating, with some modifications, voluntary standards ASTM F2906-12 and F2050-12, respectively

NHTSA announces change to windshield standard approach, calls for event data recorders

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has withdrawn a rulemaking proposal that would have rescinded federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 219, “Windshield zone intrusion,” and issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require event data recorders (EDR) in light vehicles

Consumer fraud claims filed against baby crib bumper manufacturer

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

A woman who purchased baby crib bumpers has filed a putative class action in a California federal court alleging violations of consumer-fraud laws and claiming that the company falsely advertises the products as safe when properly installed, despite risks of injury and death posed by these products

Eleventh Circuit allows scalp burn claims to proceed against hair dye maker

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a lower court erred in excluding non-hearsay statements about a hair dye product in a personal injury lawsuit

Rule 23(b)(2) class may be certified where monetary damages are incidental

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that, consistent with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S. Ct. 2541 (2011), a class in which monetary as well as declaratory or injunctive relief is sought may be certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(2) as long as the monetary relief is incidental

Commission abandons appeal in challenge to unsafe product database

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

According to a news source, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has discontinued its Fourth Circuit appeal from a Maryland federal court’s ruling that a product safety complaint was too misleading to post on the commission’s Saferproducts

Negligent misrepresentation suit against paint company tossed

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

A federal court in Missouri has dismissed, under the economic loss doctrine, a negligent misrepresentation claim against a paint manufacturer involving a purportedly defective product and alleging economic loss only

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