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Woman Claims VW Tiguan Seat Heater Burned Her

A Volkswagen seat heater lawsuit is heading to trial after a judge refused to dismiss the entire complaint.

The plaintiff claims she suffered second-degree burns due to a Volkswagen Tiguan seat heater, while VW argues the seat heater had nothing to do with any injury.

Plaintiff Emily LaPrade was in a car crash on New Years Day 2014 that left her paralyzed below her hips and with no sensation below her T10 vertebra.

The plaintiff says since then she can feel a “little bit of tingling” from her T10 vertebra to her hips, “[l]ike if your arm went to sleep and then it was starting to wake up.”

The plaintiff admits she was trained to “be kind of hyperaware, ve …


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