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Industrial Products & Equipment | Medical Products & Equipment | 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

• Brand-name drug manufacturers may be liable for consumers’ off-label use of generic equivalent

• Failure to adequately warn of Accutane’s risks

• Claim against antidepressant manufacturer fails under learned intermediary doctrine

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Household Products

• Defective design of gas range

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Industrial Products & Equipment

• Inadequate warning of dangers posed by asbestos insulation on valves, steam traps, power cable

• Lack of stationary guard between conveyors

• Failure to warn of asbestos dangers in automotive brake parts, clutches

• Trial court erred in excluding expert testing on later-model product by same manufacturer

• Bystander asbestos exposure by oil refinery worker

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Medical Products & Equipment

• Estate of vaccine claimant who died during suit could recover death benefits, predeath injury damages

• Experimental device recipient’s signing of release did not establish his primary assumption of risk

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Tobacco

• Oregon rejects smokers’ medical monitoring claim

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Transportation

• Lack of stiffer padding under car’s passenger seat

• Judge may have erred in striking plaintiff’s tardy disclosures where defense produced evidence late

• Insufficient roof strength in SUV

• Court did not err in ordering production of crash tests, sanctioning defendant for noncompliance

• Court erred in barring warning-related testimony by expert who admitted he was not warnings expert

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