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CHICAGO (CN) – Hewlett-Packard may be on the hook for selling fax machines which it allegedly knew were a fire hazard, a federal judge ruled.
In 2010, Nector Stavropoulos bought a Hewlett-Packard 1040 fax machine, a model very similar in design and specifications to a machine the company recalled in 2008 because a defective power supply caused some machines to overheat and catch on fire.
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HP sold approximately 928,000 model 1040 fax machines in the U.S. and Canada between 2004 and 2011.
But according to Stavropoulos, HP knew in 2008 that the 1040 machine contained the same defect as its recalled product, but failed to do anything about it until 2012, when a new recall was issued.
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