October 19, 2023
A Washington federal jury said Thursday a property insurer failed to prove its claim that a defective battery in an HP laptop caused a 2015 New Year's Eve fire that gutted a Seattle-area apartment and killed one of the tenants.
October 17, 2023
An investigator hired by a property insurer that claims an HP laptop battery sparked a deadly apartment fire conceded on cross-examination Tuesday that, after hearing a contemporaneous police witness interview read at the Washington trial, he can't rule out the possibility that a resident set the blaze.
October 16, 2023
Counsel for HP attacked a property insurer's claim that a manufacturing defect in a laptop battery caused a deadly apartment fire during opening statements Monday, playing a Washington jury a 911 call in which a witness tells the dispatcher her partner was drunk and started the blaze.
September 06, 2023
A Washington federal judge on Tuesday axed a negligence claim from a property insurer's suit against Hewlett-Packard over a laptop that allegedly started a fatal apartment fire in 2015, while ruling the tech giant must face a strict product liability claim.