News tagged with 'Firestone Tires'

A settlement has been reached in a California lawsuit filed against Ford Motor Company and Bridgestone/Firestone over faulty tires on a woman's Ford Explorer. In May 1999, Dolores Castro suffered a broken neck and brain damage when her Explorer rolled over on a Los Angeles highway after tread allegedly separated from

Michelin settled a lawsuit Tuesday with the families of four people who died when their church van overturned due to a faulty tire. In a press release issued yesterday, consumer interest group Public Citizen accused the tire giant of settling the suit to avoid the release of incriminating documents concerning the safe

In an effort to make tires safer for consumers, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) plans to implement new regulations that will require tires to run at higher temperatures, for longer periods of time and at faster speeds. The new standards, which may take effect later this month, extend from th

Continental Tire North America announced Monday that it is recalling nearly 600,000 size P275/60R17 Contitrac AW and General Grabber AW tires because of problems involving tread separation. The tires were manufactured between March 1999 and October 2000 and have Department of Transportation date codes that range from

A Texas jury recently awarded $29 million to the family of a 35-year-old man who was killed in an accident involving a Bridgestone/Firestone tire defect. Terry Tripp died in September 2000 after the tread separated on the left rear tire of his Chevrolet Blazer. Jurors determined that Sears Roebuck, the company that s

Three public interest groups filed a lawsuit against the Department of Transportation (DOT) yesterday over the inadequacies of a new tire pressure checking system. In the wake of the Firestone Tire recall, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a rule requiring all vehicles built after Novem

An Illinois Federal Appeals Court has denied class action certification of millions of product liability claims stemming from the recent Ford Explorer/Firestone tire fiasco. The appeals court said competing state laws and the countless reasons for tire failure would have made class action litigation "unmanageable." B

Earlier this month, an Arizona Superior Court jury ordered a rental car company to pay $9.5 million to the family of a girl who died in a tragic car accident. Arecili Naranjo, 6, was killed when the Chevy Astro her family had rented abruptly veered into a median and flipped on a desert highway. The right front tire's

The recent recall of Goodyear Load Range E tires has alarmed auto safety experts across the country. According to safety officials, the recall pact between the tire maker and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will leave millions of Load Range E tires on the roads. The tires are linked to doze

Ford Motor Company will pay over $15 million to a Miami girl and her parents after a jury decided that the billion dollar automobile company was responsible for installing a faulty tire air valve that led to a tragic accident in 1999. Mary "Phoebe" Jimenez, 12, was left in a vegetative state and her aunt was killed wh

Another chapter in one of the worst defective tire cases in history began today when Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced it will pay up to $51.5 million to 50 states and three territories to settle a pending lawsuit. The settlement includes payment of $500,000 to each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has made an initial decision that a defect related to motor vehicle safety exists in certain P235/75R15 and P255/70R16 Firestone Wilderness AT tires manufactured before May 1998 that are installed on sport utility vehicles (SUV). This Engineering Analysis Repor

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected a request to issue a court-ordered recall of Firestone tires or the Ford Explorer SUV. Lawyers representing the families of those killed or injured in rollover accidents had requested the action from U.S. District Court Judge Sarah E. Barker. Her ruling declared

Firestone announced today that it had settled a lawsuit involving a tread separation on a Ford Explorer SUV. The Rodriguez family of Texas sued the tire maker after their Explorer rolled over on a Mexican highway. The family sought $1 billion in damages from Firestone. Ford agreed to a settlement of its portion of l

Jury deliberations have begun in the $1 billion lawsuit filed against Bridgestone/Firestone by the family of a wheelchair-bound woman injured in a Ford Explorer rollover. The Rodriguez family's attorney compared the tire manufacturer to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Firestone's attorney blamed the tire tread's