Families diagnosed with food poisoning. These are just a few of the hundreds of refrigerator complaints consumers have filed in recent years with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which ...

50 percent have experienced a problem—including failing to make ice and a broken compressor—and 13 percent of refrigerators have experienced a breakdown so severe that they stopped keeping food cold.

Samsung is one of the biggest names in the consumer electronics and home appliances market, and its products are often lauded for their quality. But over the past half a decade or so, the company has ...