WHAT IT IS: A portable ladder that hooks over a window sill, providing a safer means of escape from a fire in a multistory home. Such ladders store under a bed or near a window, and are designed to be ...
A judge has cut one of the largest civil verdicts in Virginia history – $116 million over the design of a fire escape ladder – by about $100 million. In 1999, after Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Inc ...