After deaths of girls blamed on hoverboard battery, judge OKs $38.5M settlement

ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has signed off on a settlement of $38.5 million in survival and wrongful death litigation surrounding a fatal house fire in Hellertown in April 2022, a fire started by a hoverboard device which allegedly malfunctioned while charging and killed two young girls.

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