Defective bath mat leads to lawsuit
Buy Photo Diane Williams , who slipped on a bathmat marketed as "non-slip" about a month after getting a hip replacement surgery , poses for a portrait Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, at her home Sioux Falls . (Photo: Joe Ahlquist / Argus Leader) Buy Photo A Sioux Falls woman who slipped on a now- recalled bath mat marketed as slip-proof has sued the company that made it and the company that sold it. Diane Williams had a hip replacement about a month before she fell in the shower due to a slip on her “AquaRug.” Williams bought the rug one year ago after seeing it advertised on the home shopping network QVC . The fall came within months, resulting in a broken right leg, a surgical revision of her hip replacement, four weeks of assisted living care and physical therapy. By the time she’d ordered the Aqua Rug, manufacturer Tristar Products , Inc. had been sued in federal court over allegations the non-slip bath rug was prone to slippage. “I purchased the AquaRug because I wanted to b...
