Fitbit will pay $12.25 million after reaching a settlement with the Consumer Product Safety Commission for not reporting a ...

Fitbit has settled with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a long-standing defect that caused some ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced on Friday, January 23, that Fitbit, LLC, headquartered in San ...

Fitbit to pay $12.25 million fine for Ionic smartwatch overheating issues. 115 reports of battery overheating, 78 burn injuries, two third-degree, and four reports of second-degree burns. Fitbit must ...

Fitbit failed to report overheating incidents involving its Ionic watches in which customers suffered serious burns, safety ...

After consumer complaints of overheating batteries, the company did not immediately report the defect with its Ionic smartwatches, according to a settlement with the U.S. government.

The civil penalty follows 115 reports of overheating, including injuries ranging from second to third-degree burns.

Fitbit is paying a $12.25 million fine over its Ionic smartwatches, which the company recalled in 2022 after reports that the watches’ lithium-ion batteries overheated and, in some cases, burned ...

Fitbit should have notified the CPSC about how dangerous the Ionic's batteries were. This week, they agreed to pay a ...

The device was recalled in 2022 after Fitbit received 115 reports of overheating and 78 reports of burn injuries.

Fitbit will pay a civil penalty of $12.25 million after it "knowingly failed to immediately report" a defect in its Ionic smartwatches that caused dozens of people to sustain burn injuries, the ...