LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit for selling batteries thought to be at risk of causing fires.
Attorneys at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy sued the company Sept. 1 in Los Angeles federal court. The proposed class action charges Amazon with violating California laws by selling products with lithium-ion 18650 battery cells.
Those products include laptops, flashlights, e-cigarettes, hoverboards and others.
“Amazon misrepresents the existence of protective circuits and voltage cutoffs,” the suit says. “Amazon misrepresents and fails to adequately inform consumers of the overall defective, fraudulent, and dangerous nature of the batteries.
“Not only does Amazon unfairly, unlawfully, and deceptively hide the truth about lithium-ion 18650 batteries, but they also continue to sell, market, and advertise the batteries on their website despite knowledge that they are defective, fraudulent, and dangerous.”
Plaintiffs are Craig Crosby and Christopher Johnson.