Insurance firm sues Microsoft over Xbox house fire

[wraggster]

AN INSURANCE COMPANY acting on behalf of Melvin Young has sued Microsoft because his house suffered an extensive fire because an Xbox malfunctioned on January 5th last year.
Allstate Insurance had an insurance policy in Young's name, and alleges the Xbox was "unreasonably dangerous" and was, defective, malfunctioned and caused smoke and fire damage in his house.

Allstate alleges Microsoft is responsible for all loss, damage and injury and was negligent in proving an Xbox with defects.

Allstate is demanding Microsoft shell out $250,000 to cover the insurance costs on the house. The case was filed in a circuit court for Prince George's County. An earlier case, linked below, was settled between the Weatherfords and Microsoft last year.

[NoQuarter]

Woah!
Poor guy,not only did he lose his 360 but his house as well.

[Malksta]

Yup.. Poor guy.

[ExcruciationX]

Poor dude ...

[cloud_952]

... an Xbox malfunctioned on January 5th last year.

It wasn't a 360, then. The 360 came out in November of last year, 10 months later.

So.. yeah. o_O Normal Xbox. Which is kinda weird. I don't remember those overheating.

But I don't believe the case anyway. He had to have been doing something sinfully stupid, leaving curtains soaked in gasoline on his Xbox or something.

[Tulvert]

This law suit is one the reasons Microsoft started offering the new power cord for the Xbox. The cord it's self had problems. That and the power supply in the system could cause a fire if to much dust was present in the system. They never had the proper covering for the power supply to stop dust from getting in and on it.