Careful with some SharkNinja pressure cookers! The company is facing a lawsuit by Lauren Wolf-Bond who claims the company sells defective pressure cookers, specifically the Foodi OP300 model, which can cause serious burns. It’s true the company has issued a recall in more than 1.8 million products, but it wasn’t enough to solve all the issues.
These types of lawsuits are more common that you might think, sometimes companies and customers reach an agreement and others not. So, let’s see what happened more in detail.
SharkNinja and its pressure cookers
This American company is known for selling household appliances, such as blenders, air fryers, and electric cookers. However, they may have lost the trust of many consumers after a negative situation when a consumer, Lauren Wolf-Bond, started a lawsuit against them.
This lawsuit was filed in May 2025 in the Massachusetts federal court and is related to a serious issue with the company’s electric pressure cookers, specifically the Foodi OP300 line.
The lawsuit in detail
Lauren states the pressure cookers have a manufacturing or design defect which makes the lid open while the cooker is being used. This is so dangerous because the hot food, vapor or boiling liquids inside the cooker can escape, causing serious burns to people near the cooker.
Apart from the defeat, it is said in the lawsuit that SharkNinja knew or should have known about this situation before selling these products, because the company must frequently do pre-market testing, quality assurance protocols, consumer complaints, warranty claims and internal engineering analyses.
According to the lawsuit, despite the possible information of the defect, the company didn’t warn customers about the danger. This is why SharkNinja is accused of acting irresponsibly.
Recall
In May of 2025, SharkNinja issued a voluntary recall on more than 1.8 million of the Foodi OP300 pressure cookers in the United States. However, the lawsuit argues this is not enough because they offered a repair and no options of a refund or a replacement. What’s more, the company’s solution didn’t solve issues like: the product keeps being dangerous, no trust in using it for it main function, and its value has lowered.
Lawsuit’s aim
This is not a simple lawsuit, it will represent every American who has bought one of these defective products for personal use. That’s why this lawsuit aims to:
- Be recognized as a class action.
- Make SharkNinja to recall every defective model that is still in the market.
- Affected customers receive a real and safe solution.
- These consumers get financially compensated because of: health and safety risk, product’s value loss, and the impossibility of using the household appliance in a safe way.
Another aspect that is pleaded is the fact that SharkNinja violated consumer protection laws on a state level (California) and a federal level, including laws against misleading publicity, unjust enrichment and breach of warranty.
What happens now?
This case has been registered as Wolf-Bond v. SharkNinja Operating LLC number 1:25-cv-11314, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Lauren is being represented by several lawyers from Siri & Glimstad LLP and Laukaitis Law LLC.
We do not know what the result will be, but one thing is for sure: consumers must use their right to make a claim whenever serious situations happen. People’s safety is at risk, so the best thing to do is to make it public so that it won’t happen to more people. This is why the solution SharkNinja proposed was ridiculous for the affected consumers. Let’s hope justice is served in this case. Do you think Lauren did the right thing by making a claim against SharkNinja?