Mealey's ( March 29, 2022, 1:10 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A Missouri federal judge on March 24, breaking from rulings in several other jurisdictions hearing similar claims, denied a Korean battery-maker’s motion to dismiss a personal injury lawsuit brought by a man who was injured when batteries in his e-cigarette vape device exploded in his pocket, finding that the plaintiff plausibly alleged that the company does business in the state by shipping thousands of its batteries there....