Samsung is facing a lawsuit from a Galaxy Note 7 owner who endured an exploding phone in his pants just hours before Samsung began to cooperate with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission on an official recall:
After news emerged that Samsung had received 92 reports in the US about the battery in its Galaxy Note 7 phone overheating -- including 26 cases involving burns -- it seemed only time before someone would contact a lawyer.
Now, Reuters reports, 28-year-old Jonathan Strobel of Boca Raton, Florida, has filed what may be the first lawsuit in the US involving the Note 7's combustible battery. Strobel's suit, filed Friday, says his Note 7 exploded in his front pants pocket on September 9. This allegedly happened in a Costco in Palm Beach Gardens, where Strobel works. "His right thigh has a deep second-degree burn the size of the phone," Keith Pierro, Strobel's lawyer, told me, adding that Strobel's left hand was also burnt. (He apparently reached for his overheating phone with his opposite hand.)
The Palm Beach Post reported that Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue described the phone as having melted inside Strobel's pants.
The complaint says that Strobel suffered "sustained serious and permanent bodily injuries resulting in pain and suffering, permanent impairment, disability, mental anguish, inconvenience, loss of the enjoyment of life, expense of medical care and treatment, expense of hospitalization, lost wages, and ability to earn wages in the past and to be experienced in the future."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @07:23PM
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Doing the things that Florida can
What's he like? It's not important
Florida man
Do his pants sing, or flame so bright?
Is his suit against Samsung right?
Or does Samsung say he needs light?
Nobody knows, Florida man
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They have a flight, Florida wins
Samsung man
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He's got a watch with a millions hand,
Billions hand and a Google hand
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Cell phone explodes - flash in the pan!
Goes back to sad job stocking cans
Florida man
Has his thighs reached enormous size?
Or are they burnt like big pot pies?
Who came up with Florida man
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They have a fight, Costco wins
Costco man
Apologies to TMBG.