SCRANTON – Preparation of a settlement is underway in a lawsuit between a Mississippi widower and a Mount Union company over claims concerning an allegedly defective natural gas heater which may have been responsible for the death of the plaintiff’s wife.
SCRANTON – Summary judgment motions have been filed in a lawsuit between a Mississippi widower and a Mount Union company litigating over claims concerning an allegedly defective natural gas heater which may have been responsible for the death of the plaintiff’s wife.
SCRANTON – A federal court venue remains to be determined for a lawsuit between a Mississippi widower and a Mount Union company litigating over a suit concerning an allegedly defective natural gas heater which may have been responsible for the death of his wife.
William Scott Etheridge of Holly Springs, Miss. first filed a complaint on Feb. 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against World Marketing of America (doing business as “Kozy-World”) of Mount Union.
The complaint alleged his wife, Doris Jean Etheridge, died after flames from a Kozy-World Wall Heater installed in their home “protruded outside of the grated barrier” on March 18, 2019, catching her shirt on fire and resulting in severe burns that led to her hospitalization and death.