Apple Sued By State Farm Over Alleged iPhone Fire (cnet.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday July 23, 2017 @09:18AM from the unlike-a-good-neighbor dept.

An anonymous reader quotes CNET: Insurer State Farm and one of its customers, Wisconsin resident Xai Thao, allege that one of Apple's older iPhones had a defective battery that led to a fire last year. A lawsuit filed on Thursday by both State Farm and Thao claims that her iPhone 4S "failed" and "started a fire at Thao's home." The lawsuit further claims that "preliminary investigations show evidence of a significant and localized heating event in the battery area of the iPhone." It also declares that there were "remnants of internal shorting, indicating that an internal failure of the iPhone's battery caused the fire"... The State Farm lawsuit says that Thao's iPhone was "in a defective and unreasonably dangerous condition" when she bought it in 2014. The suit is claiming in excess of $75,000 in damages.

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Discontinued in Sep 2013. by HornWumpus · 2017-07-23 09:32 · Score: 4, Informative

She bought the phone at least 4 months after it was discontinued (Sept 2013 per Wiki).
Who did she buy the phone from?
Who made the battery in it when it burned?
WTF happened to /.? We all hate Apple and all, but this? Really? Kick the lawyer in the balls until he pukes.

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John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Re: Not a surprise by Anonymous Coward · 2017-07-23 10:05 · Score: 3, Informative

"There's no reason for a lithium cell to ever fail if it's sized properly for it's chemistry."
Wrong, there is a reason. Time.