Maine – A woman who says she suffered a third-degree burn from a heated seat in Chevrolet Suburban has sued General Motors.
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Emma Verrill says in her suit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland, Maine, that GM failed to adequately test the rear seat heaters to prevent them from reaching “dangerously high temperatures that would burn human flesh.”
Verrill is paralyzed from the waist down and can’t feel hot and cold in her lower body.
She tells the Portland Press Herald ( http://bit.ly/1sOVncs ) her burn was so serious it required surgery and months in bed.
She’s seeking unspecified damages.
Verrill grew up in Yarmouth and now lives in Texas.
GM denied the seat heater was defective or dangerous, denied causing Verrill’s injury, and denied knowledge of a defect or failure to fix a defect.
Why didn’t she turn off the heat switch or get up if the seat got hot enough to burn human flesh? I would think that the padding would burn first at that high a temerature.
Third-degree burns involve charred skin, severe blistering and exposed tissue. “I do not think that word means what you think it means.”
was it in winter with clothing on? in the summer with shorts definitely that can happen but u need to have a pre-existing medical if u don’t feel the heat…