Amazon agrees to pay shoppers up to $1,000 for defective goods after facing high-profile liability cases

And in April, a California appeals court found that Amazon could be held liable in that state for burn injuries caused by an allegedly defective hoverboard sold by a third party on the marketplace, even though the e-commerce giant did not warehouse or ship the product. Amazon has also won product liability cases, such as one in Texas in June, when the state Supreme Court ruled that the company could not be held liable for the injuries of a toddler, who ingested a battery from an allegedly defective remote control sold on the Amazon site by a third party.