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Personal Injury & Torts

Sep. 24, 2009

Pay Attention to Internet Talk

Jennifer Taggart of Demetriou, Del Guercio, Springer & Francis LLP says monitor social media to identify product liability issues.

TORTS

By Jennifer Taggart

A mommy blogger reviews one of your client's toys, and posts on her blog that the hard plastic nose fell off within five minutes of her 2-year-old son playing with it and that he almost choked on it.

An environmental activist tweets that his testing of your client's fake leather purses purchased in California have elevated detectable lead levels.

A Facebook user posts that her daughter cut herself on an exp...

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