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Key Points Evenflo recalled over 324,000 car seats due to a choking hazard from headrest foam. A class action lawsuit alleges Evenflo’s recall and remedy kit are inadequate responses. Consumers can contact Evenflo’s ParentLink Consumer Care team for further questions. Whether you have children of your own or not, most of us can agree that little ones are precious cargo and should be treated as such. Despite their larger-than-life personalities and carefree attitude, kids can be pretty fragile. They’re still growing and learning to walk, and they haven’t yet developed the language to articulate when something might be wrong. Sure, we’ll know when they start crying, but at that point, all we can do is comfort them and try to find the source of the problem. While it’s inevitable and nearly impossible to avoid your kiddo getting a few scrapes and boo boos here and there, if we can avoid the more dangerous situations, we’ll do whatever we can to do so. We’ll always make sure to hold their hand and keep them within eyesight, double-check for hazards before letting them run loose, and, most importantly, make sure they’re strapped into their car seat. But what if, instead of keeping your mini-me safe, the car seat itself were a hazard on its own? Talk about nightmare fuel. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 Unfortunately, that happens to be the case for popular car seat brand Evenflo, which issued a voluntary recall in September of over 324,000 car seats due to a choking hazard. According to the recall, infants could easily remove the foam from the headrests of the Gold Revolve360 Slim and Revolve360 Slim car seats, putting them at risk of ingesting it. In addition to the recall, the brand offered consumers a free remedy kit with an additional tape seal to prevent access to the headrest foam—but a new class action lawsuit alleges that the proverbial Band-Aid wasn’t nearly enough. Evenflo Hit with Class Action Lawsuit Over Recall Affecting 324,00 Car Seats The lawsuit filed by Debbie Barraza accuses Evenflo of failing to disclose that its Gold Revolve360 Slim and Revolve360 Slim car seats pose a heightened choking hazard, and argues that the recall and subsequent remedy kit offer are inadequate responses to the severity of the circumstances. Barraza is seeking monetary damages for herself and all class members, as well as injunctive and declaratory relief. The new class action suit comes just a few months after Evenflo agreed to settle another class action lawsuit over its Big Kid Booster Seats, which were found not to be as safe or as rigorously tested as advertised.
