For about 18 months now, we’ve been feeling a bit like Chicken Little (or Henny Penny for those in Europe).
We have been posting about the dangers hidden in the impending implementation of the European Union’s Product Liability Directive (“EU PLD”), and bending the ear of any in house lawyer in reach about taking
December 9, 2026? What is that about?
Well, December 9, 2026 is the deadline for each member nation within the European Union to have incorporated the EU’s new Product Liability Directive (“PLD”) into their own national laws. In key markets like Germany, that work is well underway.
Not every EU member state will meet
Today’s guest post is by Reed Smith‘s Jamie Lanphear. Like Bexis, she follows tech issues as they apply to product liability litigation. In this post she discusses a pro-plaintiff piece of legislation recently introduced in Congress that would overturn the current majority rule that electronic data is not considered a “product” for purposes