STEPHENSON v. SUNBEAM PRODUCTS, INC.

Civil Action No. 3:2006-55.

545 F.Supp.2d 498 (2008)

Sandra STEPHENSON, Administratrix of the Estate of Margaret J. Yartim, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. SUNBEAM PRODUCTS, INC., Jarden Corporation, Sunbeam Products, Inc., a registered fictitious name d/b/a Jarden Consumer Solutions, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

March 4, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Quinn A. Johnson, Thomas A. Berret, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, Pittsburgh, PA, George E. McLaughlin, McDermott, Hansen & McLaughlin, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff.

John E. Hall, John H. Williams, Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, Pittsburgh, PA, Stephen T. Moffett, Thomas L. Vitu, Moffett & Dillon, Birmingham, MI, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION and ORDER OF COURT

GIBSON, District Judge.

The case sub judice concerns the cause of death of the decedent, Margaret J. Yartim. In essence, the Plaintiff asserts that death was caused by injuries resulting from a defect of some kind in a Sunbeam electric heating blanket that the decedent owned and allegedly used the night of her death. The decedent's life was ended by smoke inhalation resulting from a fire that began in her...

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