CAMDEN, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – Amazon.com is facing a lawsuit in New Jersey that blames it for a fire in Vineland.
Audrey Yeung and her insurer Wesco filed the lawsuit Nov. 5 in Camden federal court over a 2016 fire that the plaintiffs say was found to have originated from a hoverboard.
The hoverboard had been purchased a year earlier on Amazon.
“(D)efendants’ hoverboard was unsafe for its intended use for the reason that the product had caused an unreasonably dangerous condition,” the suit says.
“The fire, and the subsequent injuries sustained by the plaintiff’s insured, were due to and proximately caused by the… defective and unreasonably dangerous condition of the hoverboard.”
The suit seeks at least $200,000. Kearns Duffy & Vaccaro is the law firm pursuing the case.