Showing posts with label product liability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label product liability. Show all posts
Saturday, 18 January 2025

Suppliers sharing names with producers beware - CJEU in Ford Italia (C-157/23)

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  Photo by  Benjamin Scheidl  on  Unsplash In December the CJEU issued the judgment in the Ford Italia case ( C-157/23 ), which focused on t...
Thursday, 18 April 2024

Unintentionally becoming an apparent producer - AG Campos Sánchez-Bordona's opinion in Ford Italia (C-157/23)

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Photo by Benjamin Scheidl on Unsplash AG Campos Sánchez-Bordona elaborated today on the notion of a producer under the Product Liability Di...
Friday, 9 June 2023

Throwback to last summer: the notion of producer clarified by the Court (C-264/21, Keskinäinen Vakuutusyhtiö Fennia)

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Our last two posts concerned the notion of the consumer in the context of two judgments issued earlier this week ( CJEU confirms... , Financ...
Sunday, 27 June 2021

No strict liability for injuries resulting from published wrong health advice - CJEU in Krone (C-65/20)

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In our previous post ( What's the worst that could happen?... ) we have commented on the opinion of AG Hogan in the case Krone ( C-65/20...
Monday, 19 April 2021

What's the worst that could happen? Toxic horseradish! - AG Hogan in Krone (C-65/20)

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AG Hogan issued an opinion in Krone ( C-65/20 ) case last Thursday, critically examining the concept of a defective product under the Produ...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Follow-up reading on W and Others in Nature

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Further comments and considerations on the W and Others judgment may be found in the just published article " Vaccine ruling from Euro...
Friday, 23 June 2017

If scientists quarrel whether a vaccine caused a disease, it's left to the courts - CJEU in W and Others (C-621/15)

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On June 21 the CJEU decided in the case of product liability related to a potentially defective vaccine - W and Others ( C-621/15 ). Mr W w...
Monday, 16 March 2015

Strict product liability for recall of medicinal devices - CJEU in Boston Scientific Medizintechnik GmbH (C-503/13 and C-504/13)

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5 March 2015: CJEU judgment in Boston Scientific Medizintechnik GmbH ( C-503/13 and C-504/13 ) Previously, we discussed the opinion of ...
Friday, 21 November 2014

Producers of medicines must share information on their adverse effects - CJEU in Novo Nordisk Pharma (C-310/13)

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20 November 2014: CJEU judgment in Novo Nordisk Pharma GmbH ( C-310/13 ) We wrote before on this blog about the problem presented in th...
Tuesday, 21 October 2014

Medicinal product recall allows to claim damages for surgical removal thereof? - AG Bot in case Boston Scientific Medizintechnik GmbH (C-503/13 & C-504/13)

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21 October 2014: Opinion AG Bot in case Boston Scientific Medizintechnik GmbH ( C-503/13 & C-504/13 ) Imagine you had a pacemaker i...
Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Consumer's right to information about medicine's side effects - AG Szpunar in Novo Nordisk Pharma (C-310/13)

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11 June 2014: AG Szpunar in case Novo Nordisk Pharma ( C-310/13 ) Today, AG Szpunar issued an opinion regarding interpretation of Artic...
Friday, 17 January 2014

Manufacturer's jurisdiction in product liability cases - CJEU judgment in Kainz (C-45/13)

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16 January 2014: CJEU judgment in Kainz ( C-45/13 ) Mr Kainz, resident of Salzburg (Austria), bought a bicycle from a company Funbike, ...
Friday, 18 October 2013

Total recall?

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Product safety is an emotional subject that is being brought up more often nowadays. Since technology and communication keeps on improvin...
Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Keeping European consumers safe

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European Commission published an annual RAPEX report for 2012 " Keeping European consumers safe " (on the operation of the Rapid ...
Sunday, 28 April 2013

Lack of EU collective redress weakens position of defective breast implants' victims

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EU consumer organisation BEUC issued a press release on the 17th of April lamenting the constant lack of a possibility to claim consumer co...
Thursday, 25 April 2013

Does fake equal bad? European Commission thinks so.

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Last year we posted about the EU Customs trying to protect consumers from counterfeit goods by strengthening the examination of products en...
Friday, 3 August 2012

Colour your hair to feel European

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Today the European Commission amended an old Directive 76/768/EEC relating to cosmetic products. The new Directive 2012/21/EU concern...
Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Safe Toys' Story

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The safety of consumer products is seen as one of the key consumer rights and its proper enforcement is especially needed when products are...
Friday, 27 July 2012

EU helps to keep it real

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"Got a real bargain when I bought this Louis Vuitton wallet for 10 euro". Well, who doesn't like a bargain? Some bargains...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012

RAPEX - keeping the danger at bay

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RAPEX a is a rapid alert system that has been set up to detect dangerous non-food products that enter the European market from third cou...