SACRAMENTO — California’s plaintiffs bar will try to remove an obstacle to bringing class actions under the Consumers Legal Remedies Act with a piece of legislation introduced late last week.
Senate Bill 1188, backed by the Consumer Attorneys of California, would assert that plaintiffs do not have to show that a concealed flaw in a consumer product poses a safety risk to be actionable under the 44-year-old CLRA. That current safety risk requirement—plaintiffs lawyers argue that it’s developed over seven years of “misconstrued” legal interpretations—has blocked a number of lawsuits targeting personal electronics brought by consumers who allege manufacturers were aware their products were fatally flawed.
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