{"id":753674,"date":"2013-05-29T07:31:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=155251"},"modified":"2013-05-29T07:31:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:31:38","slug":"apple-to-pay-out-53m-in-iphone-water-damage-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/753674","title":{"rendered":"Apple to pay out $53m in iPhone ‘water damage’ lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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153,000 iPhone and iPod owners are in line for a payout from Apple after the company agreed to a $53 million settlement to a 2010 lawsuit. The class action suit concerned malfunctioning devices that the\u00a0Cupertino, Calif. based company claimed had been damaged after coming into contact with water.<\/p>\n

A \"liquid damage policy\" allowed Apple to deny warranty coverage if the liquid indicator inside the device changed color from white to pink or red, \"proving\" contact with water.<\/p>\n

However, although the indicators were designed to show the presence of water, it was later found that heat could also cause the damning color change.<\/p>\n

Documents filed at the US District Court for the Northern District of California state that the money will be held in a fund and shared between the members of the class-action suit. Successful claimants can expect to receive around $200 -- $300 each from Apple.<\/p>\n

The settlement is still to be approved by the court, but is unlikely to face further obstacles.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit:<\/strong> morrison77<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n

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153,000 iPhone and iPod owners are in line for a payout from Apple after the company agreed to a $53 million settlement to a 2010 lawsuit. The class action suit concerned malfunctioning devices that the\u00a0Cupertino, Calif. based company claimed had been damaged after coming into contact with water. A “liquid damage policy” allowed Apple to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-3a42","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}