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A customer has reportedly sued online-retail giant Amazon after a portable phone charger purchased from their website apparently burst into flames in his pocket.

The student suffered first, second and third degree burns in the incident.

The University student alleged that he was out playing pool when he borrowed the portable external charger from his friend to charge his own phone. He connected the charger to his phone before pocketing it. His lawsuit explains that the charger overheated and then “spontaneously ignited” inside his trouser pocket.
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Only a year after its Galaxy Note 7 was hastily recalled after numerous reports of explosions, refurbished Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4’s are also seeing similar issues.

Some 10,200 Galaxy Note 4’s devices were refurbished and distributed between December 2016 and April 2017. However, it has since been discovered that some of the refurbished devices contain counterfeit batteries and may overheat, posing risks of burning users or apparently even spontaneously combusting.

Samsung has announced that “FedEx Supply chain is conducting this recall of non-genuine Samsung batteries as some of them are counterfeit.”
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A lawsuit is being brought against the giant corporation, Apple Inc, for allegedly disabling FaceTime video conferencing apps on their older model iPhones. Some suggest Apple are doing this to force customers to upgrade to more expensive and newer models.

Apple attempted to get the lawsuit dismissed, but reportedly failed.

A Judge in the case ruled that customers who own the iPhone 4 and 4S models can join a class action for Apple’s alleged behaviour. Users claim that Apple has no right to discontinue a feature purely on older generation models.
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Apple has categorically denied responsibility for explosions reportedly occurring with their iPhone 5 products. Several complaints have been filed against the tech giant for ‘overheating and exploding’ iPhones, with a lawsuit first on 19^th January in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.

On around 22^nd February 2016, Kyler Mowery was injured when his iPhone 5 reportedly exploded in his pocket, with the reason for the explosion being allegedly due to a possible defect of the phone/battery.
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iPhone batteries have reportedly been a long-standing problem since their entry on the market. Users have reported multiple issues with the battery, especially with regards to the iPhone 6.

Its been reported that a bug or defect causes the phone to crash ‘dramatically’, meaning the power might plunge from 50% or 30% to 1% and other times the iPhone just shuts down altogether.
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Last year, multiple Samsung Note 7’s were unexpectedly igniting; causing great concern for users’ safety.

Samsung quickly initiated a recall to replace the faulty batteries. However, it didn’t take long for those to set on fire too. After a thorough investigation into the phones and what exactly caused the ignitions, Samsung has revealed that there were two main reasons; both relating to the batteries in the hand set.
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Samsung have had a rough time lately; unfortunately for them, things don’t look to be getting better anytime soon…

Following Samsung’s rough 2016 with many reports of Samsung mobiles ‘overheating and exploding’, and their washing machine tops detaching from the body, 2017 isn’t looking any better as Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 Edge and S7 Active owners are complaining that the glass on their smartphone camera is “shattering spontaneously!”
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A Californian man in the U.S. has filed a lawsuit against Tesla after his Model X SUV vehicle allegedly accelerated on its own, crashing into his garage, through the walls, and into his living room!

The claimant, as the driver, and his passenger, both suffered injuries in the crash. The lawsuit was brought to court with an application to make it a group class action as another seven (7) cases were cited to have similar allegations against Tesla as well.
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In what may be the first in a potential line of claims against Apple and other tech giants, the multinational technology company is being sued with allegations that they caused the death of a 5-year-old girl because they failed to disable the real-time video-call chat feature, FaceTime, while a vehicle was moving at high speeds.

On 24 December 2014, five-year-old Moriah Modisette was tragically killed in an accident in Texas which involved a driver using FaceTime whilst he was driving.

And it’s that part that has led to this new lawsuit.
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If you thought the whole Samsung exploding phones saga had gone away, you’re sadly mistaken.

In a recent report, a Samsung Galaxy S6 model travelling to Taipei had allegedly ‘overheated and emitted smoke’. The Civil Aeronautics Administration and Aviation Safety Council who are investigating into the matter said that the passenger’s Galaxy S6 emitted smoke as it was crossing Philippine airspace.
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With all this technology, you’d have thought that apps were advanced enough to detect health dangers. However, this unfortunately may not be the case for many smartphone health apps.

We as Group Action Lawyers represent victims for Medical Group Actions and Data Breach Group Actions, so this is right up our avenue of experience.
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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in America is calling for a study into the effects of airplane cabin noise on flight crews.

Recently, Peter DeFazio, a top Democrat, raised the issue that the cabin noise may cause irreversible hearing loss. This is a huge concern for flight attendants on long haul flights, who will be exposed to the noise pollution for a long time, and this of course extends beyond the U.S. and affects our country too.
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