You may be familiar with certain mass recalls of defective products. For example, in December 2016, The Co-op was forced to recall chocolate Santas after batteries were found inside two of them. And recently, most brands of hummus made by Bakkavor were recalled from...

The New York Journal reported in July 2014 that a Texas based lawyer filed a claim for compensation against General Motors on behalf of 658 people killed or injured as a result of defective ignition switches. In February of the same year, General Motors issued a...