The highest state court in Washington on Thursday said the families of teens who died by suicide after purchasing a toxic substance on Amazon.com Inc.'s platform could bring negligence claims against the e-commerce juggernaut.
The act of suicide wasn’t a superseding cause that precluded claims under Washington’s Product Liability Act and Amazon had a legal duty to exercise reasonable care when selling sodium nitrite, the toxic substance, the Washington Supreme Court said in an en banc opinion.
Suicide facilitated by ingesting sodium nitrite spiked after 2018 and led to a flurry of litigation against the retailer. The substance is used ...
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