What this service is:

Get updates on significant developments and issues in product safety and liability litigation and regulation, plus analysis from top litigators.

What it helps you do:

• Protect your business or clients with accurate, objective news of legislative proposals, regulatory changes, agency actions, and court decisions relating to product safety and liability.
• Comply confidently with government requirements by finding out sooner about changes to the Consumer Product Safety Act and other relevant statutes and regulations.
• Learn about product recalls and enforcement actions that may affect your business or clients.
• Use Bloomberg BNA's expert analysis to spot legal trends early — developments are often reported months ahead of other publications—and assess their impact on the value and strength of your cases.
• Find out about litigation and other developments that are sometimes unavailable from other sources, including pretrial filings and decisions, evidentiary rulings, and verdicts and settlements.
• Know what litigation strategies adversaries and colleagues use, and how courts respond.
• Put significant developments into perspective and determine what they mean for your practice. Leading practitioners regularly offer their views.
• Stay up to date without taking too much time. Easy-to-read, well-organized highlights let you see instantly which articles are of interest to you, so you can skip right to them.
• Get authoritative, unbiased reporting — highly regarded by plaintiffs’ and defense attorneys, judges, regulators, corporate counsel alike.

Product Structure

Reference: analysis, guidance and primary source material

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Print reference material is updated regularly and indexed annually. Print notification is issued weekly and indexed quarterly, cumulating annually.

Web notification is published continually and archived to 1/19/1996. E-mail summaries, providing the highlights and table of contents for each report, with URLs to full text articles and documents are also available.

• Asbestos
• Building and construction equipment
• Drugs
• Electrical equipment
• Firearms
• Food
• Lead paint
• Machinery
• Medical devices
• Motor vehicles
• Pending litigation
• Pesticides
• Product recalls
• Sports equipment
• Tobacco
• Toxic products
• Wood preservatives

• Consumer Product Safety Act
• Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act
• CSPC regulations
• Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
• Federal Hazardous Substances Act
• Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
• Flammable Fabrics Act
• Medical Device Amendments
• Motor Vehicle Safety Act
• NHTSA regulations
• Poison Prevention Packaging Act
• Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act of 2000