Modern electronic pressure cookers like the Best Buy pressure cooker have become popular in recent decades, amid marketing that has promoted advanced features that were supposed to prevent pressure cooker explosions that have plagued older, stove-top designs.
However, Rosilla’s lawsuit suggests that Best Buy was aware of the safety measures failing long before it issued an Insignia pressure cooker recall impacting more than 900,000 units on October 26, 2023. By that time, the manufacturer had already received at least 31 reports of incidents where the contents were expelled under pressure, including 17 reports of burn injuries, some involving second-degree and severe burns.
Rosilla’s lawsuit asserts that had Best Buy acted more swiftly to recall the defective pressure cookers, her injuries could have been prevented.
“Defendant knew or should have known of these defects but has nevertheless put profit ahead of safety by continuing to sell its pressure cookers to consumers, failing to warn said consumers of the serious risks posed by the defects, and failing to recall the dangerously defective pressure cookers regardless of the risk of significant injuries to Plaintiff and consumers like her,” the lawsuit states. “As a direct and proximate result of Defendant’s conduct, the Plaintiff in this case incurred significant and painful bodily injuries, medical expenses, lost wages, physical pain, mental anguish, and diminished enjoyment of life.”
Rosilla’s lawsuit claims that the allegedly false advertising about the safety measures are more than misleading, calling them “flatly wrong,” and noting that they put consumers in harm’s way. The lawsuit presents claims of strict liability, defective design, failure to warn and negligence.