Product Safety News

Hearing Confirms Asbestos Bill is Bad for Victims, Bad for Taxpayers

June 7 Today the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the re-introduced asbestos bailout bill. In response, Ken Suggs, President of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), issued the following statement. Read the statement

Asbestos Bill Remains $20 Billion Corporate Bailout for Asbestos Companies That Knowingly Poisoned People

June 2 In response to the re-introduction of the asbestos bailout bill in the U.S. Senate, Ken Suggs, President of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), issued the following statement. Read their story

Auto Executives Knowingly Endangered Customers to Increase Corporate Profits

Mar 14 The Anderson family's terrifying experience in a Chevy Malibu that exploded into flames shows the need for the civil justice system to hold manufacturers of dangerous products accountable. Read their story

Rhode Island Civil Justice System Protects Children from Dangers of Lead Paint

Mar 1 On February 2, a Rhode Island jury ruled that three paint companies endangered children by selling lead paint they knew for decades to be deadly, and today the judge in the case ordered the companies to clean up lead paint problems in over 300,000 homes. Read the facts

Auto Manufacturers Know How to Make Stronger Roofs, but Choose Not To

December 6 Under the Transportation Equity Act of 2005, Congress directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to establish rules to reduce deaths and injuries caused by vehicle rollover accidents and to specifically propose a new standard for how strong a vehicle’s roof must be.

Currently, 10,000 people die and 24,000 people are injured every year in rollover accidents. Instead of acting to significantly reduce injuries, NHTSA proposed a weak “roof crush standard” that leaves safety at the status quo—70% of vehicles on the road currently meet the new proposed standard.

Still worse, the proposed rule marks an unprecedented power grab by a federal agency, preempting all state requirements and state tort law. The result: as long as a car manufacturer meets the proposed standard, no individual may bring a claim in any court if they are injured or killed because of a badly made roof.

NHTSA Rolls Over for the Auto Industry

Background

Laws that hold manufacturers of defective products liable for harming consumers are a powerful warning to wrongdoers that they cannot market and sell products that injure or kill consumers and expect to get away with it. AAJ fights for families. We oppose efforts that would limit consumers' access to court to confront wrongdoers, as well as efforts to restrict remedies for consumers who bring legitimate products liability claims against manufacturers.

Product Liability Laws Make America Safer

Cases That Have Made Families Safer

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