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Clothing | Drugs | Industrial Products & Equipment
Recreational Products | Tobacco | Transportation

Clothing

• Defective ballistic material in bulletproof vest

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Drugs

• Availability of medical monitoring in Vioxx case not dependent solely on existence of manifest disease

• Failure to adequately warn of Vioxx risks

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Industrial Products & Equipment

• Manufacturer of ship evaporator insulated with other company’s asbestos may be liable for failure to warn

• Lack of warning regarding asbestos in joint compound

• Failure to warn of toxic risk from polyvinyl chloride resin

• No federal preemption of claims against manufacturer of mining dust collection system

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Recreational Products

• Defective valve on buoyancy control device

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Tobacco

• California rejects presumption that smokers were aware of tobacco’s addictiveness by 1988

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Transportation

• Defective seat belt presenter in SUV

• Venue change to place of incident not warranted in suit involving allegedly defective pickup truck

• Defective restraint system in passenger car

• Failure to warn of dangers of aging tires

• Inadequate adhesion between tire’s belts

• Faulty seat belt retractor in SUV

• Defective single-point sensor air bag system

• Fail-to-latch defect in tractor-trailer seat belt buckle

• Unstable design of SUV

• Georgia’s seat belt law is substantive and prohibits evidence of belt nonuse in products liability action

• Plaintiff may pursue failure to warn claim despite failure to read allegedly defective warning

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