A Fairfield County man is suing the electronic cigarette giant Juul after he claims an addiction to the product led to a massive stroke in 2017.
Maxwell Berger, 22, filed the lawsuit on July 8 in San Francisco County Superior Court. In the suit, he claims to have become addicted to the product in his senior year of high school in 2015, when he was enticed to try the product with tasty flavors like mango.
The suit claims Berger soon became addicted to the product, which led to a massive hemorrhagic stroke in July 2017 that led to three separate brain surgeries and over 100 days in the hospital. The medical emergency left him with left-side paralysis, speech impairment and a 50 percent loss of vision in both eyes, the suit said.
At the time of the stroke, Berger was consuming two Juul-pods a day, which translates to about four full packs of regular cigarettes, according to the suit.
Berger, who is represented by Lieff Cabraser, filed the lawsuit on July 8, claiming that the company’s targeting of young teens with deceitful ad campaigns that gloss over the its products’ harmful effects contributed to his medical episode.
“We are hoping that Juul takes responsibility for its conduct in targeting and luring young people to use its very dangerous products, and that they are held accountable for fair and reasonable compensation to this young man,” said Lieff Cabraser partner Sarah R. London, who represents Berger, on the firm’s website.
Widespread media attention has been building around Juul e-cigarettes, focusing on new studies and reports of serious dangers and heightened risks associated with Juul products, particularly for users under the age of 26.
Juul products are especially popular among young...
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