{"id":107400,"date":"2026-05-03T07:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/us-electronics-firm-fined-millions-for-failing-to-report-defective-acs-causing-fires\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:36:27","slug":"us-electronics-firm-fined-millions-for-failing-to-report-defective-acs-causing-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/us-electronics-firm-fined-millions-for-failing-to-report-defective-acs-causing-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"US electronics firm fined millions for failing to report defective ACs causing fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey firm, Royal Sovereign, has been fined $8 million and ordered to pay over $395,000 in restitution for concealing dangerously defective air conditioners linked to over 40 fires and one fatality. The company knowingly sold thousands of units with a faulty motor, leading to a recall and a guilty plea for violating consumer safety laws.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey firm, Royal Sovereign, has been fined $8 million and ordered to pay over $395,000 in restitution for concealing dangerously defective air conditioners linked to over 40 fires and one fatality. The company knowingly sold thousands of units with a faulty motor, leading to a recall and a guilty plea for violating consumer&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/us-electronics-firm-fined-millions-for-failing-to-report-defective-acs-causing-fires\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US electronics firm fined millions for failing to report defective ACs causing fires<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":107401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}