Product Safety & Liability Reporter: Current Reports Index-Summary

OFFICE OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT (OMB)

– Regulatory review criteria, lawmakers, lawyers, and experts differ, Special Report, 417

OHIO

– Asbestos, medical criteria provisions apply retroactively (Ohio Ct. App.), 37
– Jurisdiction, long-arm statute does not confer personal jurisdiction of over domestic subsidiary of foreign corporation (N.D. Ohio), 537
– Lead paint, state withdraws public nuisance suit against manufacturers (Ohio Ct. C.P.), 189
– Strict liability, claim for manufacturing and design defects of epilepsy drug that caused multi-organ sensitivity rejected, no evidence of manufacturing defect or cause of injuries (S.D. Ohio), 858
– Strict liability, negligence, warranty breach, and consumer sales violations, class action for failure to warn of risk of Prilosec (S.D.Ohio), 635

OIL AND GAS

– Enviro-Flo plus fuel containers, fire hazard, recall, 892
– Ethanol blended gasoline, federal law requiring use does not preempt boat owners' claims that fuel damages engines (S.D. Fla.), 128
– Fuel economy

See MOTOR VEHICLES

– Gas cans without flame arresters, burned plaintiffs sue manufacturer (E.D. Tex.), 250
– Gas grills, CPSC and Canada recall where hose of gas tank causes fire hazard, 819
– Motor vehicle fuel systems

See FUEL SYSTEMS

– Smith Servs., maintenance firm may not recover for damages to injured worker who borrowed tool from another contractor where no sale involved (Tex. Ct. App.), 907
– Storage tanks, defective pipes, remand of removed case reviewable in federal appeals court (5th Cir.), 135

OKLAHOMA

– Non-resident participation in class actions, medical evidence in asbestos claims, and cap on noneconomic damages in personal injury cases, lawsuit reform bill signed, 637

OMB

See MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET OFFICE (OMB)

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES

See CONTRACEPTIVES

OREGON

– Tort reform, bill increasing damages limits against public entities signed, 449

OSTEOARTHRITIS MEDICATIONS

See BONE-BUILDING DRUGS

OUTLOOK 2009

– CPSC, 78
– Expert witnesses, proposed change to federal rules of procedure, 119
– International trade, 116
– Litigation issues: preemption, punitive damages, 92
– NHTSA, 83
– State and federal legislation, 89