Lawsuits can alert safety regulators to potentially harmful products. But a thick blanket of secrecy covers product-liability litigation in the U.S., leaving regulators and consumers in the dark about potential defects
When judges seal evidence about defective cars, drugs and other products – as they often do – the taxpayer-funded watchdogs that could take life-saving action are sometimes left in the dark.
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