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How Can Defective Product Liability Apply to Automotive Parts in New Jersey?

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When your car’s brakes fail on a busy New Jersey highway or your airbag doesn’t deploy during a collision, a defective automotive part may have caused your injuries rather than driver error. In these cases, defective product...more

Fishman Haygood LLP

U.S. Sixth Circuit Panel’s Rejection of GM’s Article III Standing and Predominance Challenges to Class Certification is Now Set...

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An August 2024 decision by a panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit in Speerly v. General Motors, which underscores key developments in the law governing class certification, Article III standing, and the treatment of manifest...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Plaintiffs Fail to Show "Some Basis in Fact" For Certification in Two Proposed Vehicle Defect Class

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Class proceedings are frequently proposed after automakers issue recall notices. Two recent decisions from the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan, Kane v FCA US LLC, 2024 SKCA 86 (Kane) and Evans v General Motors of Canada...more

Morgan Lewis

Trends in Automotive Class Actions

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As the types of automotive class actions continue to evolve, so too do class action trends and developments. Morgan Lewis lawyers detail below some of the hot topics in automobile class action litigation, such as personal...more

Hogan Lovells

Straight Talks: Innovations in product liability for autonomous and connected vehicles

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The autonomous vehicle revolution has introduced an exciting array of innovations into the automobile industry. Groundbreaking technology has created ingenious ways to address mobility and traffic issues. But it has also...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Common Defect Found in Multiple-Model Product Liability Class Action

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In a recent case before the British Columbia Supreme Court, N&C Transportation Ltd. v. Navistar International Corp., 2016 BCSC 2129 [N&C], Justice Skolrood certified a multiple-model product liability class action after...more

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