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.
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.
ALLENTOWN – The parents of two sisters killed in a house fire in Hellertown last April have claimed the girls’ hoverboard ignited while charging and caused the fatal blaze, and further, have filed an amended complaint in suing both the device’s manufacturer and retailer – substituting Target in place of Walmart.