If your child was injured by a product made by Fisher-Price, contact our law firm about a lawsuit against the company to compensate you and your child. Our child safety lawyers have helped many families get settlements over a million dollars.
Product Liability and a Fisher Price Lawsuit
A product liability claim against Fisher-Price can be based on negligence, strict liability, or breach of warranty of fitness depending on the jurisdiction where the claim is based.
Product liability is generally considered a strict liability offense. Strict liability wrongs do not depend on the degree of carefulness by the defendant. Translated to products liability terms, a defendant is liable when it is shown that the product is defective.
It is irrelevant whether the manufacturer or supplier exercised great care; if there is a defect in the product that causes harm, the manufacturer and/or supplier will be liable for it. In the case of a lawsuit involving a Fisher-Price product, our law firm would investigate to determine what companies in addition to Fisher-Price could be held liable. It is almost always in the injured person’s best interests to have multiple defendents (people being sued for money damages).
From the moment we take a product liability case, we consider the issue of damages (money/compensation for the injured person and his or her family). People injured by defective products are entitled to receive money damages for such things as pain and suffering, medical bills, lost wages, loss of earning capacity, disability and disfigurement, emotional distress and, in some cases, loss of enjoyment of life.
Fisher Price Recalls
Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play Sleepers
Fisher-Price recalled 4.7 million Rock ‘n Play sleepers on April 14, 2019. Since 2009 the product has been implicated in over 30 infant fatalities. Infants can roll out of the sleeper and become seriously injured or killed. The consumer products safety commission is advising consumers to immediately stop using the product and contact Fisher-Price for a refund. If you have a child who was injured using the Rock ‘n Play sleeper, contact our child safety lawyers today.
Soothing Motions Seats
Fisher-Price issued a recall of about 63,000 Soothing Motions seats on October 24, 2017. This recall involves model numbers CMR35, CMR36, CMR37, and DYH22 and Smart Connect Soothing Motions Seats with model number CMR39. The model number is on the underside of the motor housing. According to the company, the motor housing can overheat, posing a fire hazard. The company has received 36 reports of overheating, including one report of a fire contained within the motor housing. No injuries were reported. They were sold at BuybuyBaby, Target, Toys R Us, Walmart and other stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com and other websites from November 2015 through October 2017.
Fisher-Price Cradle Swings Recall
This recall involves 3 models of the Fisher-Price cradle swings: CHM84 Soothing Savanna Cradle ‘n Swing, CMR40 Sweet Surroundings Cradle ‘n Swing, and CMR43 Sweet Surroundings Butterfly Friends Cradle ‘n Swing. The product number is located on the seat under the pad. The company received two reports of a seat peg coming out from the seat, which caused the seat to fall. No injuries have been reported. The products were sold at buybuyBaby, Target and other stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com and other websites from November 2015 through March 2016. They were recalled in April of 2016.
Fisher-Price High Chair Recall Due to Report of Skull Fracture
Fisher-Price and the the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) have received a report of one child falling out of a Fisher-Price 3-in-1 high chair. In response, on March 4, 2009, the company voluntarily recalled about 24,000 of these products. This 2009 recall involves the 3-in-1 High Chair to Booster™, which converts from a high chair to a toddler booster seat. It includes a removable tray, height adjustment and folds for storage. The product number (P5369) is printed on the side of the seat, on a label on the seat pad, and on the product’s packaging.
Fisher-Price Fined $975,000
In March of 2007, Fisher-Price Inc., of East Aurora, N.Y., agreed to pay a $975,000 civil penalty for failing to report to the government that a nail fastener in the Little People® Animal Sounds Farm could separate from the toy and pose a serious choking or aspiration hazard to young children.
About 67,000 Little People® Animal Sounds Farms were sold nationwide from June 2002 through July 2002.
- In September 2002, the company received its first report of a nail fastener coming loose from one of the Little People Farm barn’s stall doors. Over the next two months, it received nine additional reports, including one case of a child placing the nail fastener in her mouth.
- By February 2003, the company had received two reports of parents concerned that this problem posed a choking hazard to children and a report of a December 30, 2002 incident in which a 14-month old child aspirated a nail fastener into his lung. The child was taken to the hospital and underwent an emergency surgical procedure to have the metal nail fastener removed.
- It was not until March 2003 that the company reported the safety hazard with the Little People® Animal Farm to the Commission. By that time, it was aware of at least 33 reports in which the nail fastener came loose from the stall doors. These included four reports of children who put the metal nail fastener in their mouths and the one case of the child who aspirated the nail fastener.
Federal law requires firms to report to CPSC immediately (within 24 hours) after obtaining information reasonably supporting the conclusion that a product contains a defect which could create a substantial risk of injury to the public, presents an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death, or violates a federal safety standard.
In April 2003, CPSC and Fisher-Price announced the recall of the Little People® Animal Sounds Farms and recommended that consumers take the toy away from young children immediately.
In agreeing to settle the matter, Fisher-Price Inc. denies CPSC’s allegations that the company knowingly violated the law.
Prior to the loss of quorum, the Commission delegated authority to the Office of Compliance and Field Operations to settle this matter with Fisher-Price before March 1, 2007.