Product Liability: 2015 Year in Review

Massachusetts state and federal courts issued a number of important product liability decisions in 2015. The Product Liability and Toxic Tort Litigation Group at Nutter recently reviewed these cases. Highlighted below are some of the key cases and issues decided in the past year.

Reckis v. Johnson & Johnson, 471 Mass. 272 (April 17, 2015): Interpreting Wyeth v. Levine to hold rejection of a Citizen's Petition to change an FDA-approved warning label was not "clear evidence" that the FDA had in fact rejected...