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Article 28 mai 2020
Guidance on regulation of CBD food products – implications for insurers and manufacturers
On 13 February 2020, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) published guidance on the regulation of products for consumption containing cannabidiol (CBD).
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Article 31 jan 2020
Sitting ducks? Manufacturers targeted in vicious ransomware attacks
Ransomware is one of the top threats for manufacturers in 2020. There have been an increasing number of targeted and paralysing attacks against European-based global producers, as evidenced by Picanol’s announcement last week.
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Article 23 jan 2020
Product liability and life sciences – trends report 2020
As innovation and new technologies are rapidly transforming the way we live, it is imperative that businesses in all industries remain alive to the risks arising from these advancements.
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Article 21 mai 2019
Charles River attack places spotlight on the cyber threat to the life sciences sector
On 1 May 2019, Charles River Laboratories revealed it was the victim of a ‘sophisticated and well resourced’ hacking attack and resulting data breach, discovered in mid-March and thought to have compromised about 1% of the company’s client data.
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Article 21 mai 2018
The DePuy Pinnacle metal on metal hip litigation - Kennedys represents successful defendant in landmark product liability group action
In a landmark group action ruling, the Honourable Mrs Justice Andrews DBE sitting in the High Court has ruled in favour of the defendant, DePuy, finding that the product is not defective under the Consumer Protection Act 1987.
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News 21 mai 2018
Kennedys secures major ruling for manufacturers and insurers in landmark group litigation
DePuy International Ltd’s ULTAMET® Metal-on-Metal (MOM) Articulation, a total hip replacement prosthesis, is not defective under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (the Act), the High Court has ruled today in a decision likely to affect many hundreds of other claims against manufacturers of MOM hip implants in the UK and the EU generally.
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Case review 6 dez 2016
Not strictly defective?
High Court defines ‘defective product’ under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 in landmark case.