No casualties, but $1 million house is gone.
A family in Nashville has decided to drag e-commerce giant Amazon to court for knowingly selling a poor quality hoverboard that caught fire and destroyed their $1 million house.
USA Today reported that the family of Brian Fox has filed a lawsuit through Steve Anderson, of the Nashville law firm Anderson & Reynolds PLC.
“The Foxes contend that Amazon and its various subsidiaries had information about the danger of this product well in advance of the Jan. 9 fire, and on top of that, they had notice, they should have known the product was being misrepresented on their website,” Steve Anderson told USA Today.
The incident happened on January 9 this year when the 4000 square foot house of the Fox family on Radcliff Drive, near Edwin Warner Park was destroyed in a fire caused by a hoverboard. Fox managed to rescue his two children from the second floor of the burning house.
“The most horrific thing was obviously the episode that day and trying to rescue these two teenagers, and the profound impact on them,” Anderson said.
“It’s also important to consider that literally in a matter of few minutes every single personal possession of this entire family was destroyed. The only things that remained were their vehicles and handful of books and pictures they were able to find that had water damage they were able to dry out. In the blink of an eye it was all gone,” he added.
The Fox family has named 10 defendants including Amazon, and the retailers who sell hoverboard on its site. According to the lawsuit, “W-Deals,” the retailer who sold the defective product to the family is a fake company registered to an apartment in New York City.
The family alleged that the company sold them a counterfeit Chinese product instead of a brand with a Samsung lithium ion battery. The company hasn’t responded to the repeated requests from the lawyers.
The lawsuit seeks $30 million in damages including compensation for physical injuries and mental distress.
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