Personal Injury Law

Toy Chest Dangerous, Lawsuit Claims

By Edward Bills

Retail giant Target has been named in a lawsuit by a Butler County, Penn., family who claim a wicker trunk they bought from the store and used as a toy chest trapped their toddler daughter’s neck and left her in a vegetative state. Eric and Laura Surman say in the lawsuit that the lid of the trunk snapped down on their daughter’s neck, cutting off oxygen to her brain. She suffered a severe lack of oxygen to the brain, resulting in spastic quadriplegia, severe psychomotor mental retardation. The lawsuit claims Target should have inserted a lid support on the chest or put a warning label on the product, and that Target has known for years that the trunks were potentially hazardous.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).