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If you have an interest in national, regional or local program planning, publishing articles about the law, creating online columns or CLE, and would like to work with a highly collegial and diverse group of lawyers with interests in products liability law and practice, then you've come to the right Committee!

The 2008 Joint CLE Seminar was held with the Environmental Litigation and Mass Torts Committees in Snowmass (Aspen), Colorado. The meeting was a great success with over 150 participants and excellent programs. The written materials are now available.

Published by our Pharmaceuticals Subcommittee, this 50-state survey examines the effect of FDA regulation and approval on the imposition of punitives, the insurability of punitive damages, and the limits on punitive damages, including those which are responsive to the recent Supreme Court rulings which have explored the constitutional limits on these damages.

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The U. S. Supreme Court, by an 8-to-1 majority, recently held that the express preemption provision of the Medical Device Amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. 360k(a), preempts state-law claims seeking damages for injuries caused by medical devices that have received premarket approval (PMA) from the Food and Drug Administration.

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