The grounds that eProducts could sue Data Analytics for injury to their reputation is, defamation and slander. If Data Analytics is going to launch a false advertising campaign that hurts the character of eProducts then not only are the committing slander, but they are immorally under cutting another company to try and improve their sales.
Vogel could succeed on his strict product liability claim if he can meet all six requirements. Vogel will have to prove that the phone design was defected when he bought it, he would (in some cases) need to be a retailer of the phone, Vogel would have to prove that the phone design is an unreasonably dangerous product, he would need to prove that the phone is what caused him to suffer the severe burn and the defect would have to be the proximate cause of his burn, and last but not least the phone must not have been substantially changed from when Vogel bought it to when the phone caught fire.…