In re Teflon Products Liability Litigation

Consumers (plaintiffs) sued DuPont (defendant) claiming its Teflon nonstick coating was falsely represented as safe, proposing three subclasses covering branded purchasers with documentation, off-brand purchasers, and everyone else; discovery revealed almost no proposed class members, including the class representatives, had documentation or memory of when or where they bought the products, and it was often impossible to visually confirm whether a product even used Teflon.