Whirlpool has been slammed with a surge of lawsuits since government testing demonstrated that the consumer products carrying the “Energy Star” listing did not deserve the title. Now the company wants Congress to ban the lawsuits and is threatening to abandon the...
Consumers are often forced to take legal action when a defective product results in financial or personal harm. In many cases, product defects will give rise to combined class action lawsuits that give broad rights to consumers who have suffered injury or economic...