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Samsung TV Defect Class Action Lawsuit
By Kimberly Mirando
A class action lawsuit filed in Superior Court claims that Samsung plasma, liquid crystal display and digital TVs have defective capacitors that cause the TVs to prematurely fail.
According to the Samsung TV class action lawsuit, “The Televisions are defectively designed and/or use defective materials because normal operation and usage of the Televisions exposes the capacitors…to excessive heat and/or excessive voltage, which, in turn, causes the capacitors to fail.”
The Samsung TV class action lawsuit further charges the company with knowing about the design defect but failing to recall the Televisions to fix the problem, and refusing to pay for labor or diagnostic expenses for consumers who’s TVs manifested the defect more than a year after purchase. As a result, consumers “have paid and continue to incur substantial parts and labor fees to repair their defectively designed Televisions,” the class action lawsuit states.
The Samsung TV class action lawsuit is brought on behalf of all consumers who purchased a Samsung TV in California from January 1, 2006 to the present. It is seeking restitution, damages and other relief for violation of the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, breach of warranty, and violation of the Unfair Competition Law.
A copy of the Samsung TV Defect Class Action Lawsuit can be read here.
The case is James Keeley v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Case No. 37-2011-00101584-CU-MT-CTL.
Updated December 1st, 2011
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69 thoughts onSamsung TV Defect Class Action Lawsuit
Oh…Can I not join the suit since I live in Indiana! Our Plasma is a FPT5084x/xaa. I have been reading many complaints and fixes for it online. The same issues as their LCD’s are having this year. I called and they said that only the LCD’s are being fixed. The problem doesn’t exist with the Plasmas….yeah right …they need to take a look at Youtube!
Our 50″ Plasma started clicking two days ago. Now all we get is a blicking light on the power button with just a faint clicking noise if you are close to it. I believe after reading all the complaints that Samsung needs to be responsible for putting faulty parts in their TVs! I will never buy Samsung again!
My 40 inch samsung lcd tv now makes a clicking sound every time I power it on and it takes approx. six minutes before it fully powers up and is useable. It is very annoying, please let me know how I can become part of this law suit.
Bought a 40″ “LCD in 2008. Also purchased extended 3 year warranty on Amazon site along with TV. Sure enough the unit failed in 2011 and had to have 2 capacitors replaced. Unit has now completely failed post warranty, due to design malfeasance. Arrogant Korean company that has no respect for US Law or US Citizaen. Can go straight to hell as soon as I get reimbursed for the cost of the crap TV and extended warranty. No more Samsung products for me. Sell that shit somewhere else world. Hey maybe China your friend? We defend their sorry Southern asses from the North and they still can’t do the right thing for all the money we pour into their sorry peninsula. Take US Tax dollar but no likey Americans.
I Have the same problem with my 46″ samsung lcd tv. I Dont think its just a capacitor problem. samsung offer me to change the capacitor. the tv works for 2 weeks and then same problem occur. i think the whole power bored has issue not just the capacitor.
so how do i sign up to be part of law suit on Samsung TV..
My Samsung 52 inch LCD TV clicks itself on then immediately off. This clicking on/off continues until the TV is unpluged.
I have a friend that has a bad Samsung TV. I started a facebook page for him, “I have a defective Samsung TV” to help him. I started a page against Sony years ago and Sony now helps everyone that posts on the page. So join the FB page because you will have a potential audience for 600 million people.. There is power in numbers.
My name is Toni Hollinger I have a 62″ inch samsung DLP Plim plasma tv . I have called several times to the customer service department about it but they just keep giving numbers to have it repaired on my own
I have a samsung 62″ DLp Slim plasma tv the lamp keeps going out. I have called the customer service department and could’t get the problem solved and told them that is all you see online is the same the only thing that they keeps telling me that they are sorry and they can give me some service numbers where i have to fix it my self
I have the same problem as I now know so many people have with my TV not turning on. When I talked to a Samsung rep. he never mentioned that he knew what the problem was, just to try turning the TV off and try again. I would like to be a part of this class action lawsuit.
We have had problems with our TV and now we are having problems turning TV off and on. Can we still take part in the class action suit.