Court: Amazon not liable in teen's powdered caffeine death

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Court: Amazon not liable in teen's powdered caffeine death

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that retail giant Amazon is not liable in the 2014 death of a high school senior who ingested powdered caffeine

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
Associated Press
October 1, 2020, 12:33 PM
• 4 min read

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Retail giant Amazon can't be held responsible under current Ohio product liability law in the death of a high school senior who ingested powdered caffeine, the state Supreme Court said Thursday.

At issue before the court was whether the state's law, which predates online commerce, could be applied to the facts of the death of Logan Stiner. The 18-year-old was jusays from high school graduation when his brother found him unresponsive in their family’s home southwest of Cleveland in May 2014.

Stiner died of cardiac arrhythmia and seizure from acute caffeine toxicity, a coroner ruled. He had more than 70 micrograms of caffeine per milliliter of blood in his system — as much as 23 times the amount found in the system of a typical coffee or soda drinker.