Lasko Products, the largest manufacturer of fans in the U.S., was ordered to pay $13.5 million to the family of a 7-year-old Germantown, Pennsylvania boy who was killed in a 2005 blaze ignited by a faulty fan motor.
According to the family’s attorney, Lasko knew of a defect with the motors of their portable fans in 1999, but failed to alert consumers or the Consumer Product Safety Commission of the problem. Consequently, Joshua Foster died on June 14, 2005, when the fan in his mother’s bedroom caught fire. He was trapped inside the bedroom and suffered thermal burns and smoke inhalation.
After a 13-day trial, jurors awarded Joshua’s mother and $4 million and his sister $2 million for emotional distress, $10,000 for funeral expenses, and $7.5 million to the boy’s estate.
recently named in the 2009 edition of Best Lawyer's In America, David Mittleman has been representing seriously injured people since 1985. A partner with Church Wyble PC—a division of Grewal Law PLLC—Mr. Mittleman and his partners focus on medical malpractice, wrongful death, car accidents, slip and falls, nursing home injury, pharmacy/pharmacist negligence and disability claims.
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