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No hair. No side effects? A company that makes a facial hair remover received a claim from a woman who purchased its product. The claimant alleges mucous formed in her eye, and that her eyelid became discolored from the product. The insured company denies the mucous and discoloration were caused by application of the product, and maintains it was the result of some unrelated infection. Settlement is being explored. | |||
| Claimant with a beef. An advocate for animal rights who is a strict vegetarian brought a claim against a company that manufactures nutritional supplements claiming battery and consumer fraud. The claimant alleges the packaging of the supplement fraudulently states that its nutritional supplement is vegetarian, when it actually contains animal products or by-products. The claimant threatened to file a class action suit against many companies engaged in false labeling. The claim is being settled. | ||||
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| No fun in the tank. A claim was filed against the manufacturer of a "dunk tank" game used at carnivals. A church group leased the game for its annual carnival. While in use, the game malfunctioned and injured the person sitting inside the tank. The claim is pending. | ||||
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