http://productliability.law360.com/ The Newswire for Legal Professionals Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://productliability.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://productliability.law360.com/ http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135376 A California appeals court has affirmed a ruling in favor of steam power components manufacturer Leslie Controls Inc. in an asbestos product liability suit brought by a former U.S. Navy machinist, finding upon reconsideration that the outcome of a similar case did not affect its conclusion that the parts maker was not subject to strict liability. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135376 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135516 Procter & Gamble Co. has recalled 120,000 bottle of Vicks Sinex nasal spray due to possible bacterial contamination. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135516 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135256 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into the rates charged by three interstate natural gas pipelines to determine whether the companies are overrecovering costs, harming consumers with unfairly high prices. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135256 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135136 Ohio residents who say Chevron USA Inc. should be held liable for land contamination caused by a refinery are appealing the dismissal of their negligence, strict liability and conversion state law claims. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135136 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135200 Airlines may have to compensate passengers in the European Union for flights that are delayed more than three hours, according to the EU's highest court. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135200 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135267 A group of passengers who say they were injured when a British Airways flight crashed outside of London has filed suit against The Boeing Co., claiming the manufacturer's aircraft had a defect that caused both of the plane's engines to fail. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135267 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135140 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' dredging of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet was a major cause of a levee breach that drowned parts of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge has found, awarding more than $719,000 to a group of five residents. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135140 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135075 A federal appeals court has found that Cell Therapeutics Inc.’s settlement of a qui tam suit should not preclude it from bringing suit seeking contractual indemnification from its reimbursement consultant for damages as part of the government’s investigation over its leukemia treatment Trisonex. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135075 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135090 California's Orange County Water District has asked a federal judge to reconsider her ruling that put an end to 45 of 60 claims against several oil companies of contaminating groundwater with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135090 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135054 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced labeling changes to Plavix, manufactured by Sanofi-Aventis SA and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., to reflect new data showing that simultaneously taking the heartburn treatment Prilosec can sharply reduce the effects of the blockbuster blood thinner. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135054 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135024 A U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff review has found that certain gadolinium-based contrast agents used during MRI procedures may pose more of a risk of a fatal skin disease than other agents on the market. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135024 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135044 The importer of more than 664,000 gas grills sold exclusively at Lowe's Home Centers in the U.S. and Canada issued a voluntary recall of these units on Wednesday following multiple reports of burner fires. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135044 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134888 Two proposed actions accusing Applebee’s International Inc. of fraudulently mislabeling the nutritional content of Weight Watchers International Inc. menu items will head back to state court, taking a bite out of the companies' bid to consolidate several similar cases in multidistrict litigation. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134888 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135021 Medtronic Inc. announced Wednesday that it had received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding an inspection of its heart rhythm device facility over problems the agency found at the unit’s corporate headquarters. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/135021 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134898 Continental Insurance Co., one of the insurers from which Pentair Water Treatment Co. is seeking coverage for $30 million it paid over an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease on a cruise ship, has been ordered to produce documents related to pollution exclusion clauses and to its affirmative defenses in the suit. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134898 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134958 Plaintiffs in class actions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey can continue to pursue state consumer protection claims against TD Bank NA over dormancy fees on gift cards after judges in both cases denied the bank's motion to dismiss on federal preemption grounds. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134958 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134169 The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted unanimously on Wednesday to report a bill giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration broad new powers to regulate food safety issues throughout domestic and import supply chains. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134169 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134809 Great American E&S Insurance Co. has asked a federal court for a declaration that it does not owe additional coverage to Amtrak for indemnification and defense against lawsuits filed by workers injured by a 2004 Amtrak crane accident at a tunnel site in Queens, N.Y. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134809 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134797 St. Paul, Minn.-based Cardiovascular Systems Inc. has announced a voluntary recall of all lots of its ViperSheath catheter sheath introducers amid concerns that the sheaths may stretch or fracture during use. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134797 http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134852 The federal judge overseeing the product liability multidistrict litigation over AstraZeneca LP's antipsychotic drug Seroquel has slapped down the plaintiffs' bid to videotape an expert's testimony outside the courtroom and threatened them with sanctions for wrongly filing the request as an emergency motion. http://productliability.law360.com/articles/134852