14 DAY TRIAL // The days when electronic devices caught fire on a daily basis are fortunately long gone, as the Galaxy Note 7 nightmare is over, but on the other hand, it doesn’t necessarily mean that phones and tablets still don’t overheat and sometimes burst into flames.
And Apple is the one forced to deal with such a case right now, as an iPad that caught fire last year and torched someone’s house is now the subject of a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania.
According to a report from The Registerv, a what’s being described as a defective iPad caught fire and then started a house fire, eventually causing damages that were worth $142,000. All damages, however, have been covered by an insurance with Allstate Insurance, and now the insurer is going after Apple in an attempt to recover their money.
“Defective iPad”
So technically, the insurance wants Apple to pay for the whole thing, explaining that the iPad was the one that set the house on fire and which eventually forced them to pay nearly $150,000 in repairs to one of their clients.
“The fire and its resulting property damage were caused by the defective and unreasonably dangerous condition of the subject iPad at the time it left the hands of Defendant, including design defects, manufacturing defects, programming defects, and improper warnings/instructions and/or malfunction,” the lawsuit claims.
“The subject iPad was dangerous to an extend beyond that which would be contemplated by the ordinary consumer who purchases it, with the ordinary knowledge common to the community of its characteristics. Common experience teaches that the fire would not have occurred in the subject iPad in the absence of such a defective and unreasonably dangerous condition.”
Apple has so far remined tight-lipped on the lawsuit, and of course, don’t expect the company to say anything about it.