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Federal regulators in 2007 asked Toyota Motor Corp. to consider installing software to prevent sudden acceleration in its vehicles after receiving complaints that vehicles could race out of control, company documents show.
Yet the automaker began installing the safety feature, known as brake override, only this January after a widely publicized accident involving a runaway Lexus ES that killed four people near San Diego.
A Seattle couple have sued Toyota in federal court, demanding that the company either take back the vehicle they just bought or reimburse them for its loss in value since the automaker’s sudden-acceleration troubles became news.
The lawsuit alleges that the issues plaguing Toyota violate the state’s Consumer Protection Act and amount to a breach of contract. The lawsuit is a proposed class action and, if certified by a federal judge, could apply to other Toyota owners in Washington with similar issues.
It claims more than 100 class members exist in Washington and that the damages in question will exceed $5 million.
The Texas Supreme Court threw out a $15.8 million verdict, ruling unanimously that lawyers improperly introduced evidence that a gravel truck driver involved in a 2002 accident that killed four members of a Wise County family was an illegal immigrant.
By repeatedly mentioning the truck driver’s immigration status, lawyers for the Hughes family clearly sought to inflame jurors’ passions against the driver and his employer, TXI Transportation Co., the court ruled.
The Texas Supreme Court said that a San Antonio woman could not sue her doctor over a surgical sponge left inside her body because she waited too long to file suit even though she could not have discovered the problem any sooner.
The court ruled 9-0 that the patient, Emmalene Rankin, ran afoul of the statute of repose, a tort reform law enacted in 2003 that strictly bans any medical malpractice lawsuit filed more than 10 years after surgery.
In a further blow to the antivaccine movement, three judges ruled Friday in three separate cases that thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury, does not cause autism.
The three rulings are the second step in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding begun in 2002 in the United States Court of Federal Claims. The proceeding combines the cases of 5,000 families with autistic children seeking compensation from the federal vaccine injury fund, which comes from a 75-cent tax on every dose of vaccine.
Tatum and Charlene Hernandez built their dream house in Mandeville in 2006, but their home has been their nightmare ever since they realized last year that it’s filled with problem drywall from China.
The air-conditioning and other appliances keep failing. Charlene Hernandez, a labor and delivery nurse at Oschner, gets bad headaches she never used to have. Their children, Grant, 4, and Amelia, 2, seem prone to respiratory issues.
Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.
Those estimates do not include potential payouts for wrongful death and injury lawsuits, which could reach in the tens of millions each. Still, the sheer volume of cases involving U.S. Toyota owners claiming lost value — 6 million or more — could prove far more costly, adding up to losses in the billions for the automaker.
An Oregon girl whose truck-driver father accidentally ran her over with his big rig has won $24.3 million in damages from the Portland company that a Sacramento judge found legally responsible for her injuries.
In a court-trial decision returned Dec. 14, Judge David W. Abbott said the firm that hired Simon Loza Mejia, Freeway Transport Inc., was liable for the girl’s injuries.
“Defendant was listed on the shipper’s bill of lading as the carrier,” Abbott wrote. “Defendant insured the load. Defendant guaranteed delivery of the load.”
The city of Los Angeles paid $7 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a volunteer for the Los Angeles Triathlon, who was left a paraplegic by an accident during the event in 2007, according to his attorney.
Steve Albala, who was 60 at the time of the accident, was on his motorcycle helping to officiate the bicycle portion of the triathlon. A traffic officer motioned for a vehicle to enter an intersection into the volunteer’s path, causing the accident, Albala’s attorney contended in the lawsuit.
The family of a bicyclist killed last year in a collision with a truck in Baltimore has filed a $5 million wrongful-death lawsuit against the driver and his employer.
On Aug. 4, John R. “Jack” Yates, 67, was riding his bike behind a truck when he became caught in the vehicle’s rear wheels and was run over as it turned right, police said at the time. Yates died at the scene.
The civil suit, filed in Baltimore Circuit Court on behalf of Yates’ wife, son and daughter, alleges negligence by driver Michael Dale Chandler of Severn and his employer, Potts & Callahan Inc., a demolition, excavation and equipment rental company, and seeks compensatory damages.
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