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Industrial Products & Equipment | Medical Products | Tobacco | Transportation

Commercial Products

• There are no Commercial Products cases in this issue.

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Consumer Products

• There are no Consumer Products cases in this issue.

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Drugs

• Equitable exception to removal limitations period is inapplicable where no forum manipulation

• Individual issues preclude certification of Aredia class seeking dental monitoring

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Household Products & Equipment

• There are no Household Products & Equipment cases in this issue.

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Industrial Products & Equipment

• Failure to warn of neurological injury risk from welding rod fumes

• Lack of interlocked guard on transfer conveyor

• Insufficiently wide cradle on carpet cutter

• Finding that asbestos plaintiffs met statutory proof requirement was final appealable order

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Medical Products

• Federal law preempts state tort claims challenging safety of FDA-approved medical devices

• Defendants in suit over defective equipment failed to show improper joinder of respiratory therapist

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Tobacco

• Oregon high court reinstates punitive damages in tobacco case, citing independent state grounds

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Transportation

• Lack of rear egress in tractor cab

• Lack of side air bags for van’s second-row occupants

• Insufficient seat strength in passenger car

• Defendants may perform destructive testing at trial, but only after jurors have chance to view evidence

• Court may not consider activities of corporate subsidiaries when deciding diversity jurisdiction

• Insufficient roof strength in van

• Term “component suppliers” was sufficient to identify seat belt manufacturer for purposes of release

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