Best Buy class action claims retailer sold defective Insignia pressure cookers

Best Buy class action lawsuit overview:

• Who: Plaintiff George Dean filed a class action lawsuit against Best Buy Co. Inc.
• Why: Best Buy allegedly sold defective Insignia pressure cookers that pose a dangerous burn risk to consumers.
• Where: The Best Buy lawsuit was filed in Minnesota federal court.

Best Buy Co. Inc. manufactured and sold Insignia pressure cookers that are dangerously defective and may result in hot foods and liquids being ejected while its contents are pressurized, causing a potential burn risk, a class action lawsuit alleges.

Best Buy recalled nearly 930,000 of the allegedly defective Insignia pressure cookers on Oct. 26, 2023, according to the Best Buy lawsuit.

The allegedly defective Best Buy pressure cookers include the following model numbers:

• NS-MC60SS8
• NS-MC60SS9
• NS-MC80SS9
• NS-MCRP6NS9
• NS-MCRP6SS9

The Insignia pressure cookers recall was reportedly issued because the inner pots intended for the pressure cookers have incorrect volume markings that cause consumers to unknowingly overfill the pot. Overfilling the pressure cooker can cause the contents to be ejected when the pressure cooker is vented using the quick release method or when it is opened while the contents are pressurized, posing a potential burn hazard.

“Best Buy’s active and consistent promotion of its Insignia brand pressure cookers, Best Buy’s general marketing and promotional of its overall positive reputation led plaintiff, and other consumers, to perceive Insignia as a quality company with a strong reputation for producing reliable and safe pressure cookers,” the Best Buy lawsuit alleges.

Best Buy pressure cookers were misrepresented as safe, plaintiff says

Plaintiff George Dean says he purchased one of the allegedly defective Insignia pressure cookers in 2021, believing that the product was safe and fit to use for its intended purposes. He says he would not have purchased the appliance had he known that it was dangerous and posed a potential burn risk.

Dean argues that Best Buy’s representations about safety and quality of Insignia pressure cookers were false and misleading, and that the company could have utilized safer alternative designs to ensure the Best Buy pressure cookers would not be dangerous to consumers.

Dean filed the Best Buy class action lawsuit on behalf of himself and a proposed class of all individuals in the United States who purchased any of the recalled Insignia pressure cookers between October 2017 and June 2023. He also seeks to represent a Georgia subclass.

The Best Buy lawsuit asserts claims for breach of express warranty, breach of the implied warranty of merchantability, violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, negligent design defect, strict liability manufacturing defect, strict liability failure to warn, strict liability defective design, fraud by omission or fraudulent concealment, negligence and unjust enrichment.

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Dean is represented by Chad C. Alexander of Sieben Polk PA and Paul J. Doolittle and Blake G. Abbott of Poulin Willey Anastopoulo LLC.

The Best Buy pressure cookers lawsuit is George Dean v. Best Buy Co. Inc., Case No. 0:24-cv-00030, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.

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