- Jason Edward Ochs
- September 15, 2023
Product liability refers to the legal responsibility that manufacturers, distributors, and sellers have when a consumer is harmed by a defective or mislabeled product. Multiple issues dictate how these claims are approached and resolved, and manufacturers typically have a strong…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- October 7, 2019
A recap of the Guyger trial is not the best title to describe this post, which details what was otherwise a riveting criminal case that only to some degree received the attention it deserved. Here, I try my best to…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- May 8, 2018
If you have undergone heart surgery recently, chances are a Stockert 3T Heater/Cooler was used during their procedure. LivaNova PLC, the manufacturer of the 3T, controls roughly 60% of the market for such heating/cooling devices. During a cardiac surgery, the…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- October 27, 2017
After nearly four weeks from the tragic events that left 59 people dead and scores of individuals scarred for life both physically and emotionally, the questions are beginning to surface about liability. At the center of this inquiry lies the…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- October 15, 2017
In a bombshell report early this October, the New York Times released an article exposing over three decades of sexual misconduct by Hollywood mega-producer, Harvey Weinstein. As a result, I am taking a brief detour from our usual “product safety”…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- August 24, 2017
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) suffered yet another major blow to its brand on Monday August 21st, when a Los Angeles County judge ordered them to pay $417 million in damages to a plaintiff who alleged she was diagnosed with ovarian…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- April 16, 2017
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recently declared the weed killer Roundup a “probable human carcinogen” amidst numerous studies linking it to non-Hodkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and leukemia. A number of journal reviews have specifically…
