BIC lighters loses lawsuit in Texas case. From: CPSC Monitor | Date: March 1, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Consumer Alert. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Unsupervised child fire play resulted in severe burns to a six-year-old girl in 1998. A jury recently awarded the child $5 million in damages in a lawsuit against BIC, the alleged maker of the lighter involved. (18)

In the incident, Brittany Carter, then six, was playing with her brother Jonas, who was then five. They were alone in a bedroom melting crayons with a lighter when Jonas dropped the lighter on his sister's dress. She suffered third-degree burns over 60 percen...

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