{"id":273,"date":"2024-08-05T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/?p=273"},"modified":"2024-08-05T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:13:33","slug":"cpsc-finds-amazon-liable-for-fulfilled-by-amazon-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/2024\/08\/05\/cpsc-finds-amazon-liable-for-fulfilled-by-amazon-products\/","title":{"rendered":"CPSC Finds Amazon Liable for &#8220;Fulfilled by Amazon&#8221; Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently found Amazon to be a \u201cdistributor\u201d with product liability responsibility for products sold on its website. In a July 29, 2024,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/s3fs-public\/pdfs\/recall\/lawsuits\/abc\/142%20-%20In%20the%20Matter%20of%20Amazon.com%20Inc.%20Decision%20and%20Order.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling<\/a>, the CPSC said Amazon is legally responsible for over 400,000 allegedly hazardous items sold by third-party sellers on its site.\u00a0<i>Amazon.com, Inc.<\/i>, CPSC Dkt. No. 21-2 (July 29, 2024). This decision and order adopted many, but not all, of the determinations made by an administrative law judge during an administrative proceeding in 2023, highlighting public safety as paramount. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/consumer_product_safety_commission_finds_amazon_liable_fulfilled_amazon_products_0824.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert\u00a0<\/em>on the Duane Morris website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently found Amazon to be a \u201cdistributor\u201d with product liability responsibility for products sold on its website. In a July 29, 2024,\u00a0ruling, the CPSC said Amazon is legally responsible for over 400,000 allegedly hazardous items sold by third-party sellers on its site.\u00a0Amazon.com, Inc., CPSC Dkt. No. 21-2 (July &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/2024\/08\/05\/cpsc-finds-amazon-liable-for-fulfilled-by-amazon-products\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CPSC Finds Amazon Liable for &#8220;Fulfilled by Amazon&#8221; Products&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[148,94,205,204,200,206,203,6,78],"ppma_author":[110],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-alyson-walker-lotman","tag-amazon","tag-cpsc","tag-gabrielle-pelura","tag-harry-byrne","tag-online-shopping","tag-paul-rosenlund","tag-products-liability","tag-sean-burke"],"authors":[{"term_id":110,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}