Category: failure to report

$13.5 MILLION DOLLAR VERDICT in product defect case

NATIONAL – Jurors hit Lasko Products, Inc., with a $13.5 million verdict after a faulty fan motor ignited a blaze in 2005 that killed a 7-year-old boy. Lasko is the largest fan manufacturer in the United States. They discovered a defect in the China-made fan motors in 1999 and developed corrective technology in 2004. The…

Kohl’s and Ross Stores pay almost 1 MILLION dollars

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION (CPSC) announced that KOHL’S DEPARTMENT STORES INC., of Menomonee Falls, WI, has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $425,000.00. The penalty settlement, which has been provisionally accepted by the commission, resolves CPSC staff allegations that KOHL’S DEPARTMENT STORES knowlingly failed to report to CPSC immediately,…