Jessy Edwards , Susan Parker  |  April 18, 2023

Category: Appliances

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Update:

  • A U.S. district court judge declined a class action suit against LG Electronics USA Inc. and LG Electronics against faulty gas and electric ranges, moving a September claim to arbitration because of a one-year warranty. 
  • Plaintiff Pedro Brito filed the lawsuit in a New Jersey federal court, alleging violations of state and federal consumer laws because the ranges’ knobs rotated with minor contact to ignite.
  • On March 29, U.S. District Court Judge John Michael Vazquez wrote in a court order that a Best Buy salesperson informed the plaintiff the range was covered by a warranty.
  • Brito asserted numerous violations of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practice Act.
  • Judge Vazquez wrote the plaintiff acknowledged receiving the owner’s manual containing the limited warranty, seeking service under the warranty and other factors as the reason for arbitration. 

LG range class action overview: 

  • Who: An LG range customer is suing LG Electronics.
  • Why: The customer says the ranges have defective knobs that turn on unintentionally, and which caused a fire at his home.
  • Where: The LG range class action was filed in a New Jersey federal court.

(Oct. 5, 2022)

Some LG ranges have defective knobs that turn on unintentionally and can cause fires at people’s homes, a new class action lawsuit alleges.

Plaintiff Pedro Brito filed the class action lawsuit against LG Electronics USA Inc and LG Electronics Inc Sept. 29 in a New Jersey federal court, alleging violations of state and federal consumer laws. 

According to the lawsuit,  LG makes electric ranges that include dangerous defects in the design of their front-mounted burner control knobs that make them susceptible to unintentional activation. 

The models at issue include, but are not limited to, LSEL6335F and all models containing substantially similar controls, Brito says.

On these ranges, the control knobs are prone to depress and rotate as a result of minor, inadvertent contact, the lawsuit states. When the knobs on the ranges are inadvertently contacted, they allegedly activate without warning to the consumer. 

“This unintentional activation of the Ranges’ cooktops in turn creates a hazardous condition and serious risk of fire, property damage, and personal injury,” the lawsuit states.

LG range design is defective, lawsuit alleges

In Brito’s case, he says he was eating dinner with his wife on Aug. 5 when they began to smell smoke. He went to the kitchen to find an empty UberEATS bag, left adjacent to the Range’s cooktop, on fire. 

“Mr. Brito immediately turned off the Range and placed the bag in the sink to extinguish the flames. Black smoke filled the house, but fortunately no one was injured.”

Brito says LG has known about the issue since 2021 by numerous complaints, but concealed it from consumers. 

Brito is looking to represent a nationwide class of consumers who had a defective range, plus a Florida subclass. He’s suing for fraud, breach of warranty and unjust enrichment and seeking certification of the class action, a recall, damages, fees, costs and a jury trial. 

Meanwhile, LG is also facing a lawsuit alleging it knowingly sells certain dishwashers containing defective LED control panels.

Do you have an LG range? Let us know your experience in the comments!

Brito is represented by Alan M. Feldman, Edward S. Goldis and Zachary Arbitman of Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP and Michael F. Ram and Marie N. Appel of Morgan & Morgan.

The LG Electronics class action lawsuit is Pedro Brito v. LG Electronics USA Inc, Case No. 2:22-cv-05777 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.


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45 thoughts onLG class action over defective ranges to be arbitrated

  1. Rob Lewis says:

    Our LG range when standing at it the slightest bumb will turn on the cook top. This has occurred several times not knowing it. This last time we had some Tupperware sitting on the stove with cookies inside. I was wiping down the stove and just my body touching the knob turned on a burner to low not realizing it. I walked off to another room to later smelling a strong odor from the kitchen. Get there and the Tupperware container was completely melted to the stove ceramic top burner area. Trying to scrap clean the mess damaged the stove top badly. We now need a new stove top. We feel lucky that it didn’t start a fire that would have been hard to extinguish. I went to an appliance store to see if the store display was the same. I told a store associate what had happened and their response they had heard about this issue before but weren’t any help to LG take care of this or a fix.

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