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.
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has approved 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 malfunctioned while charging and killed two young girls.
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has ruled that the biological father of one girl among two killed in a fatal house fire in Hellertown in April 2022, a fire started by a hoverboard device which malfunctioned while charging, is not eligible to recover damages under the Wrongful Death Act.
PHILADELPHIA – The Baltimore-based parents of an infant who died from suffocation, allegedly after being placed in the Boppy Original Newborn Lounger device, and Walmart have mutually agreed to remove a demand for punitive damages from the associated wrongful death lawsuit.
ALLENTOWN – A hoverboard manufacturer and Target have denied responsibility for the device igniting while charging and starting a fatal house fire in Hellertown last April, which killed two young girls.