HP Must Pay Civil Penalty Over Li-ion Battery Failure

[exfileme]

Although HP denies claims made by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company has agreed to pay a civil penalty regarding faulty lithium-ion battery packs.

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[AznCracker]

lol thats chump change. pretty sure the lawyers cost more.

 

[A Bad Day]

There's a fine line between a once-in-a-lifetime failure and a consistent failure. Nevertheless, I wonder if HP is actually going to save money from ignoring the faulty batteries after paying the fines.

 

[alidan]

the collector in me is sickened, its illegal to sell a recalled product...

 

[waethorn]

How about all of the faulty motherboards in the DV2000/6000/9000, V3000/6000, DV4/6/7/9, TC1x00, G6x, etc. systems that failed to POST that HP not only issued a recall for, but then tried to cover up by changing the terms of several times and then silently killed???

 

[Guest]

If nvidia and their partners did it with ther faulty chips,then sony and apple on their batteries and now hp...those dirty scoundrels know it is cheaper topay ransoms..ahem ..penalties than exchange the faulty products for a nonfaulty one.

 

[eddieroolz]

For a while I was scared that my old HP laptop was also affected; luckily I was not.