Widow Claims Supplement Maker and Energy Drink Manufacturer Responsible for Husband's Death

SALT LAKE CITY-The widow of a professional indoor football player who collapsed last year after a game has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers of Up Your Gas sports supplements and Red Bull energy drink claiming that the products were defective in design and caused her husband's death. Jones v. National Health Products, et al., No. 0209-08250 (Utah Dist. Ct., Salt Lake Cty.).

Daria Jones' Aug. 23 complaint also alleges that National Health Products (NHP), the manufacturer of Up Your Gas and Red Bull GmbH and Red Bull North America, Inc., knowingly misrepresented facts regarding the dangers of the …