Courthouse News Service: (CN) - Toys R Us, already on the hook for millions after a woman broke her neck on a water slide it sold, must face contract claims from the slide's Chinese designer, a federal judge ruled.
Hong Kong-based toy designer Manley Toys entered into a vendor agreement with Toys R Us in 2004.
Two years later, a 29-year-old mother died while using a Banzai Falls inflatable pool slide recently purchased from Toys R Us via Amazon. Robin Aleo had been sliding down, head first, when the slide bottomed out, causing her to hit her head on the edge of the pool. Unable to move or breathe with a broken neck, Aleo died the next day at a hospital.
In 2011, a jury reportedly ordered Toys R Us to pay Aleo's survivors $18 million in punitive damages, plus $2.6 million for lost income and pain and suffering.
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