Personal-care products maker produced wipes that contained harmful bacteria
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has certified a class-action lawsuit against American personal-care products maker Kimberly-Clark Corp. , although it is a narrower class certification than sought.
The class that was certified were those people who purchased Kimberly-Clark's wipes and were injured by those wipes, Slater Vecchio LLP lawyer Justin Giovanetti told BIV in an interview. The class that was not certified was the one that included people who simply purchased the wipes but were not injured, he added.
Representative plaintiff Linda Bowman filed her lawsuit after Kimberly-Clark recalled its flushable skin care wipes manufactured between Feb. 7, 2020 and Sept. 14, 2020, after some of these wipes were found to have been contaminated with Pluralibacter gergoviae, a bacteria that can cause serious infections, according to Giovanetti, who represented Bowman.
Bowman testified that she began purchasing Kimberly-Clark’s flushable wipes in 2020 and provided a receipt for a large package purchased from Costco on July 17, 2020, according to the judgment.
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