News tagged with 'Rollover'

The Ford Motor Company was handed a defeat before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday when it denied a last-ditch effort by Ford to overturn a $82.6 million judgment in a Ford Explorer rollover accident. Jurors had decided Ford showed a "conscious disregard" for consumer safety by failing to enforce the roof for about $20 a vehicle.

An Etowah County Circuit Court jury awarded an Alabama woman $8.5 million in an SUV product liability case. The trial concerned a 2005 lawsuit filed against Ford Motor Company over a rollover crash in 2003.

Documents in a wrongful termination case against Toyota will stay unsealed as a former insider accuses the automaker of hiding and destroying evidence in hundreds of injury and death rollover cases. This was the second time Toyota tried to have the documents sealed. 15 cases have already been reopened.

The resolution of about 300 Toyota rollovers and roof crush cases is uncertain after a federal racketeering lawsuit filed by a company insider, alleges that internal documents, vital to litigation, were routinely destroyed by Toyota.

General Motors passed another hurdle as it heads toward a sale free and clear of product liability claims by some 300 individuals. The judge says the sale is in the best interest of creditors and GM and is a better alternative to liquidation. 

Comcast, the largest cable-television corporation, has pulled ads critical of General Motors bankruptcy plan that leaves injured consumers or their survivors uncompensated.  The media giant says it wants to check them for accuracy, even though the New Chrysler required it be "free and clear of all liens and claims” as a condition of bankruptcy. 

Now that consumers have been told about the New Chrysler's plan for removing all product liability under its bankruptcy proceeding - what remedies do they have? 

The California Court of Appeal upheld a $15.4 million verdict last week in a rollover lawsuit involving General Motors' Chevrolet Blazer. In 1990, Robbie Lambert, then 18, was driving on Interstate 40 in San Bernardino County when he fell asleep at the wheel and drifted off the road. Lambert's Blazer rolled over thre