“This machine is a threat, what happened to me changed my life,” says Carlos Barrocas regarding this equipment in which you exercise by subjecting yourself to vibrations and which his wife gave him last Christmas.
“One Friday night I got on and off and I had blood on the sole of my foot and my wife tells me what it is and I tell her I don’t know. Then my foot began to swell.
But Carlos ended up at Broward General Hospital.
“I have a broken foot. The front and rear bones are separated.”
Barrocas says that a seller from China sold him the machine through Amazon, and this Thursday his lawyer filed a lawsuit once morest the internet sales giant.
“We ask the court to find that, under Florida law, Amazon can be held liable for defective products sold even by third-party sellers on Amazon’s website. We want to make sure that the financial burden falls on those people and not on innocent consumers,” says the lawyer.
The lawyer says they are suing Amazon because they are using a loophole to evade responsibility.
“The problem with third-party sellers is that many on Amazon are foreign entities and in this particular case, this was done by a Chinese manufacturer. China does not enforce US judgments, and many of these third-party sellers do not have a responsible entity in the US, so they cannot be reached, which is why many of the victims who have sued Amazon across the country have left alone in the lurch,” says a lawyer.
