A mother-of-two has been left with excruciating third-degree burns after a pressure cooker exploded in her kitchen.
Melbourne woman Sarah was left in agony after being sprayed with boiling chicken soup, with her husband and four-year-old son also receiving minor burns.
The 35-year-old had been cooking the soup in her high-pressure Sunbeam Crock-Pot two weeks ago, a product she now wants pulled from shelves.
The mother-of-two said she had initially struggled to get the lid off the pressure cooker, deciding to let it rest before trying again.
She suffered excruciating third-degree burns and will be permanently scarred for life All I remember is the pressure cooker lid flying off and then I was just curled up on the ground screaming, get my clothes off me , she told 7NEWS.
Grim burns after kitchen item explodes | Fraser Coast Chronicle
frasercoastchronicle.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from frasercoastchronicle.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Grim burns after kitchen item explodes | Tweed Daily News
tweeddailynews.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tweeddailynews.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Class action launched against Commonwealth for Stolen Generation
By Jerome Doraisamy|28 April 2021
Northern Territory-based survivors of the Stolen Generation have issued legal proceedings against the Commonwealth, demanding compensation for the forcible removal from their families as children, from 1910 to the 1970s.
A class action has been filed in the NSW Supreme Court by First Nations Australians based in the NT for injustices endured by thousands of Indigenous families.
The proceedings are being run by Shine Lawyers and funded by Litigation Lending Services (LLS). The case follows extensive consultation with affected NT community members, the firm said in a statement.
‘Our stories have to be told’
After it was accused of ‘unfairly overcharging’ clients for life insurance products
Australian banking giant Westpac has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit that has been ongoing since October 2017.
According to the firm, the case relates to “premiums paid for certain insurance policies taken out with Westpac Life Insurance Services between 2011 and 2017”.
The lawsuit by Shine Lawyers alleged the bank’s advisers “unfairly overcharged” clients for life insurance products.
Westpac will pay a settlement capped at A$30m (£17m, $23m, €19m) which is subject to approval by the federal court of Australian.
But the group said it has “resolved this matter without any admission of liability”.