April 03, 2025
A Massachusetts awning manufacturer will pay $9.25 million and implement a new compliance program to settle civil claims that it failed to report defective awning covers to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, allegedly leading to multiple injuries and at least one death.
March 12, 2025
A Massachusetts awning manufacturer and the government told a federal judge Tuesday they are finalizing a settlement of civil claims that the company intentionally hid a safety defect that led to injuries and one death.
March 15, 2024
Awning maker SunSetter can't evade claims it concealed an allegedly deadly defect by arguing that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is unconstitutional, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled, leaning on a Fifth Circuit ruling that may not be long for this world.
April 07, 2023
Federal prosecutors and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission hit a Massachusetts-based company with a civil suit Thursday claiming it hid a potentially deadly defect in protective vinyl covers that were made for retractable awnings.