'We Stand Behind the Safety' of Our 'Millions' of Phones in US, Samsung Says

Though Samsung as a policy doesn’t comment on pending litigation, “we stand behind the safety of the millions of Samsung phones in the U.S.,” spokeswoman Danielle Meister Cohen emailed us Wednesday. Eight models of Samsung smartphones “pose a grave safety threat" to the American public, as the Galaxy Note7 did, but remain on the market unencumbered by recalls or other corrective actions, alleges a federal class-action complaint filed Friday in California (see 1612260003).