WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is announcing that BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. of Marlborough, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay a $9 million civil penalty. The settlement resolves CPSC's charges that BJ's knowingly failed to immediately report to CPSC, as required by law, that portable air conditioners manufactured by Royal Sovereign International, Inc. and sold by BJ's contained a defect that could create a substantial product hazard and created an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death to consumers.