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The man, Ronnie Portee, is represented by Kevin Dean of Motley Rice LLC and George T. Sink, Jr. of George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers. In the suit filed on July 31, Mr. Portee claimed his iPhone was defective, didn't have the proper mechanisms to prevent the battery from overheating, and lacked appropriate warnings.
"Our client was nearly killed by an iPhone exploding in his pocket. We trust our cell phones won't hurt us; that they're designed to be safe. They're in our pockets, purses, planes and cars; they sit by our bedside while we sleep - 95% of Americans own cell phones [1]. We don't expect cell phones to catch on fire, yet we're starting to hear more and more about the dangers of smartphones that explode or catch fire without warning," explained attorney George T. Sink, Jr.
It seems nowhere is safe - not even Apple stores. iPhones have reportedly exploded in a Swiss Apple store, where 8 people were treated for injuries, and an Apple store in Spain reportedly saw two iPhones catch fire in two days [2]. What's worse, there are reports of an iPhone setting a dresser on fire while its owner [3] was sleeping and reports of an iPhone burning into the stomach of a teenager in Florida [4], with vivid pictures of midsection burns in the shape of the phone.
Comment: So in addition to radiation dangers, we can look forward to them exploding as well. And it seems like Samsung isn't much better.