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Association Is Not Causation: Ontario Court Dismisses Drug Liability Claim Against AstraZeneca

A 2026 decision from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice reinforces a fundamental principle of Canadian product liability law...

Canada Litigation

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McMillan LLP

Driving Forward: Key Takeaways From The 16th Anniversary Edition Of McCarthy Tétrault's Annual Retail And Consumer Markets Summit

On February 24, 2026, McCarthy Tétrault hosted our 16th annual Retail and Consumer Markets Summit. The program addressed some of the most critical issues affecting the retail and consumer markets space today...

Worldwide Consumer

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Revue De L'année 2025 – Décisions Et Changements Clés En Matière De Responsabilité Du Fabricant

Le droit canadien en matière de responsabilité du fabricant continue d'évoluer et, au cours de la dernière année, les tribunaux se sont penchés sur des questions liées aux défauts de conception et de fabrication, aux avertissements inadéquats et à la complexité croissante des chaînes d'approvisionnement modernes.

Canada Consumer

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Fasken (French)

Key Product Liability Cases And Developments – 2025 Overview

Canadian product liability law continues to evolve, and in the past year courts examined issues related to design and manufacturing defects, inadequate warnings, and the growing complexity of modern supply chains.

Canada Consumer

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Fasken

Know Your Rights: The BC Guide To Product Liability Claims

Canada Consumer

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Rice Harbut Elliott

Proposed New Requirements For Lithium-Ion Batteries In Consumer Products

Canada Consumer

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Gardiner Roberts LLP

Incoming Lithium-Ion Battery Regulations—Health Canada Wants To Hear From You

Canada Consumer

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Bennett Jones LLP

Québec's Bill 10: New Rules For Subscriptions And Ticket Resale Practices – What Businesses Need To Know

Canada Media & IT

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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Class Actions Landscape In Canada: 2025 Mid-year Update

Canada Litigation

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Torys LLP

Tendances actuelles – Octobre : Action collective en matière d'indications de prix partiel, responsabilité du fait des produits, tarifs douaniers américains, et plus encore

Canada International

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

October Timely Topics: Drip Pricing Class Action Implications, Key Product Liability Cases, The Latest In U.S. Tariffs, And More

Canada Consumer

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Québec's Warranty Of Availability: Are Companies Ready For October 5?

Canada Commercial

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Product Liability Update: Q2 2025

Canada Consumer

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Limitation Periods For Product Liability Claims - Statute Of Limitations vs. Statute Of Repose

Canada Litigation

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Scott Venturo Rudakoff LLP

Constructive Dismissal And Quiet Quitting

Canada Employment

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MLT Aikins LLP

The Court Says Fairness Comes First In CRA Decisions, Godin v. Canada (Attorney General), 2024 FC 1386

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Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.

Permanent Establishment And Remote Work: OECD's 2025 Update And Your Organization

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

2026 Thresholds For Canadian Merger Reviews

Canada Anti-trust

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Torys LLP

Understanding CRA Form T106 And How It Compares To U.S. Reporting Requirements

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Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.

Affaires importantes en responsabilité du fait des produits : Mise à jour du T2 2025

Le groupe Responsabilité du fait des produits et réclamations en responsabilité délictuelle de masse de McCarthy Tétrault S.E.N.C.R.L., s.r.l. est heureux de vous présenter son analyse...

Canada Consumer

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Health Canada's Product Safety Pledge: A Model Product Safety Framework For Consumer Products And Cosmetics

On August 25, 2025, Health Canada released its first annual report (the Report) summarizing anonymized self assessment data received in respect of the reporting period beginning September 29, 2023, and ending September 28, 2024, from signatories to the Canadian Product Safety Pledge for Consumer Products and Cosmetics.

Canada Healthcare

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Canadian Product Stewardship And EPR: 2025 Summer Update

In the first half of 2025, we have seen the continuation of innovative product stewardship and extended producer responsibility ("EPR") programs across the country.

Canada Environment

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Gowling WLG

Ontario Court Bars Product Liability Suit Under Ultimate Limitation Period

In what is believed to be a first, the recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Hennebury v Makita Canada Inc, 2025 ONSC 3850 dismissed product liability claims, including allegations of failure to warn...

Canada Consumer

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Ontario Court Of Appeal Addresses The Duty To Warn And Declines To Certify Claims For Pure Economic Loss In A Product Liability Class Action

Canada Litigation

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Recent Canadian Product Liability Case Law Highlights

Canada Consumer

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

No Harm, No Foul, No Class: Ontario Court Of Appeal Denies Certification In Pure Economic Loss Case

Canada Litigation

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Torys LLP

Legislative Update Report No. 2025-07 Le Bulletin D'actualités Législatives

Canada Government

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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Consumer Rights And Protection Across Canada's Supply Chain Operations

Canada Consumer

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Key Product Liability Cases: Q4 2024 Update

Canada Consumer

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Principales décisions en responsabilité du fait des produits : mise à jour du T4 de 2024

Canada Consumer

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Is It A Lemon?: The Limits Of Legal Blameworthiness For Product Manufacturers

Canada Consumer

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Pallett Valo LLP

Product Liability: Who Has The Burden Of Proof, Again?

Canada Consumer

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WeirFoulds LLP

Recours en nuisance publique : un risque croissant pour les entreprises canadiennes

Canada Litigation

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Principales décisions en responsabilité du fait des produits : mise à jour du T4 de 2024

Le groupe Responsabilité du fait des produits et réclamations en responsabilité délictuelle de masse de McCarthy Tétrault S.E.N.C.R.L., s.r.l., est heureux de vous présenter son...

Canada Consumer

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Is It A Lemon?: The Limits Of Legal Blameworthiness For Product Manufacturers

Some of those products that we relied upon may have caused external damage to other property. But is the manufacturer always liable for a defect in its product? The short answer is it depends.

Canada Consumer

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Pallett Valo LLP

Product Liability: Who Has The Burden Of Proof, Again?

The Court of Appeal recently released its decision in AIG Insurance Company of Canada v. Volvo Group Canada Inc., 2024 QCCA 1733, which relates to the presumption of liability that can apply against professional sellers...

Canada Consumer

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WeirFoulds LLP

Recours en nuisance publique : un risque croissant pour les entreprises canadiennes

Ces dernières années, de plus en plus de demandeurs ont intenté des recours...

Canada Litigation

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Public Nuisance Claims: An Increasing Risk To Canadian Businesses

Canada Litigation

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

British Columbia Court Of Appeal Interprets Policy Definition In Favour Of Insured

In Honeywell International Inc. v XL Insurance Company Ltd.[1], the British Columbia Court of Appeal ( "BCCA") overturned an application judge's decision.

Canada Insurance

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Theall Group LLP

Key Product Liability Cases: Q3 2024 Update

The Product Liability and Mass Torts Group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP is pleased to bring you our analysis of recent decisions for businesses manufacturing or selling products...

Canada Consumer

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Health Canada Flags Lithium-Ion Batteries And More As Key Hazards In New Prohibitions List

Health Canada monitors hazards and risks posed by consumer products. Health Canada has recently added lithium-ion batteries (including products containing lithium-ion batteries), water beads...

Canada Consumer

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McMillan LLP

Affaires importantes en responsabilité du fait des produits : mise à jour du T3 2024

Le groupe de Responsabilité du fait des produits et réclamations en responsabilité délictuelle de masse de McCarthy Tétrault est heureux de vous présenter son analyse des décisions récentes visant les

Canada Consumer

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

B.C. Supreme Court Denies Certification Of Contested Common Issues In Mentor Breast Implant Litigation

Canada Healthcare

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Bennett Jones LLP

Reasonably Participating In Treatment, Managing Invisible Disabilities, And Establishing Plaintiff Credibility: Key Findings In Moustakis V. Agbuya 2023 ONSC 6012

Canada Litigation

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Howie, Sacks & Henry LLP

Canadian Product Liability Class Actions – Case Highlights

Canada Litigation

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Towing The Line: Ontario's New Towing And Vehicle Storage Laws – Close, But Not Quite Right

Canada Consumer

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Cassels

Does Absence Make The Case Grow Stronger? Considering Adverse Inference When A Personal Injury Plaintiff Has Not Called A Family Doctor As A Witness

Canada Litigation

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Howie, Sacks & Henry LLP

Guide To Doing Business In Canada: Dispute Resolution & Litigation

Canada Litigation

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Gowling WLG

Unpacking Product Liability In The Wake Of Ontario's Listeria Scare

Canada Consumer

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McLeish Orlando LLP

Bill 72: New Contractual Requirements And Credit Provisions

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Langlois Lawyers, LLP

Who Is Responsible When AI Causes Harm? AI And Product Liability

Canada Technology

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Torys LLP

Recent Product Liability Decision Provides Insight Into Circumstantial Evidence, Inferences, And Expert Evidence

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Miller Thomson LLP

Product Liability Comparative Guide

Canada Consumer

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MLT Aikins LLP

Long Overdue Updates To Canada's Feed Regulations Now In Effect

Canada Healthcare

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Bennett Jones LLP

Canadian Product Stewardship And EPR: 2024 Summer Update

Canada Environment

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Gowling WLG

Affaires importantes en responsabilité civile des produits : mise à jour du T2 2024

Canada Consumer

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Key Product Liability Cases: Q2 2024 Update

Canada Consumer

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

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Gowling WLG

A Must See Video: Medical Alert – Hernia Mesh Recalls And Lawsuit In Canada (Video)

HS

Howie, Sacks & Henry LLP

Shaping The Future With Roger Fulton, Linamar Corp. (Video Content)

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

The Canada Consumer Product Safety Act - The New Reality - Video

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Stikeman Elliott LLP

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