Product Safety & Liability Reporter: Current Reports Index-Summary

KANSAS

– Defibrillators, Sprint Fidelis leads MDL

– Paxil

– – Time-barred, fraudulent concealment argument rejected (D. Kan.), 236
– – Wrongful death suit, family seeks reversal of defense judgment (D. Kan.), 111

– Perclose suturing device, defense judgment not precluded for non-preempted claim (Kan.), 626

KENTUCKY

– Lawnmower death, defense verdict, evidence barred on other accidents and maker's remedial actions (W.D. Ky.), 780
– Metoclopramide, brand-name makers not liable to users of generics (W.D. Ky.), 661
– Parlodel, woman died of seizure, compensatory award affirmed, causation proof properly admitted (Ky.), 491
– Targis System, negligent training claims preempted due to premarket approval (Ky. Cir. Ct.), 754

KETEK

– House hearing, drugmaker tells panel aware of problems with study, 171

KNEE PROSTHESES

– Alternative arguments rejected, suit preempted (N.D. Ill.), 776
– Marketing, oral arguments set on centralization (J.P.M.L.), 623
– Mich. consumer law provides no remedy due to federal rules (E.D. Mich.), 1021
– Oxidation experts qualified but methods unreliable (N.D. Ill.), 336

K.T. SAFETY ACT

See CAMERON GULBRANSEN KIDS AND CARS SAFETY ACT