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Sep-7-14 Detroit, MI An airbag defect has reportedly led to a recall of certain Honda vehicles. The recall, which affects approximately 63,000 vehicles, has so far not been linked to any airbag injuries. This is the latest in a string of issues with airbag failures, some of which have resulted in lawsuits. According to Reuters (8/28/14), Honda will recall... - GM’s Plan to Pay $22 Per Car Not Good Enough
Jul-25-14 Montgomery, AL Ever vigilant on this GM file, the lawyers representing families and victims of GM’s catastrophic ignition failure are extremely critical of the $400 million compensation plan as laid out in a report to shareholders. That would work out to about $22 per vehicle according to lawyers. “This estimation to pay claims for death... - GMC Yukon, General Motors Corporation agrees to confidential personal injury settlement with man who was blinded in car accident
Los Angeles, CA: (Feb-20-08) A California teenager, who was a passenger in a GMC Yukon accident, brought an automobile defect claim against General Motors Corporation. The suit stated that on Jul. 7, 2006, Michael Samardzich was a passenger in a GMC Yukon driven by Vincent Ibarra. Traveling westbound on Golden Springs Drive in Los Angeles County, Ibarra ma... - GM Faces Questions, Lawsuit Over Airbags and Other Reported Defects
Apr-4-14 Washington, DC GM is now facing regulators over issues with reported defects in some of the company’s cars. Those defects could, according to critics, also result in airbag failure and catastrophic injuries for drivers of those GM vehicles. Although the issue is not with defective airbags, defects involving the vehicles’ ignition switch cou... - Defective Auto Parts, Valeo pays Delphi $4 million settlement
New York, NY: (Oct-08-07) Delphi Corp. brought a lawsuit against French auto parts maker Valeo SA, alleging that it sold Delphi defective parts. The suit, filed in a Michigan court in 2005, claimed that Valeo sold Delphi electrical switches that were defective. Delphi, based in Troy, Michigan, is the largest supplier to General Motors and has been in bankr... - Warranty Parts Claims, Delphi Corp. must pay GM $200 million
New York, NY: (Sep-27-07) General Motors Corp. brought charges against auto-parts maker Delphi Corp., over damage claims and warranties for parts it supplied. As part of a settlement reached, a federal judge approved a $200 million settlement between the parties. The deal calls for Delphi to pay GM $130 million in cash over time and ship about $70 millio... - GM Under Investigation for Airbag Issues
Mar-14-14 Warren, MI When it comes to vehicle manufacturers touting the importance of safety features such as airbags, it makes sense to assume that issues such as an airbag failure would get the manufacturer’s attention, especially when that failure can result in airbag injuries. But General Motors is reportedly under investigation for issues related to c... - Families Suing GM Because Recall Comes Too Late
Mar-12-14 New York, NY Further to a recent massive General Motors recall involving certain model year 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalt, and 2007 Pontiac G5 vehicles, at least one family who lost a child as a result of the defect is suing GM. The recall involves over 748,024 model year 2006-2007 Chevrolet HHR and Pontiac Solstice vehicles and 2003-2007 Saturn Ion... - Possible Harbor Freight Tools Fuse Fire Lawsuit
Harbor Freight Tools is planning to recall 295,000 fuse sets that may be linked to electrical fires. The Chinese made after market fuse sets, which were supposed to be 5-30 amps, apparently had the wrong amperages, which can lead to damage to a vehicle's wiring system. Harbor Freight stopped selling the fuses in August, but still has not publicly disclosed... - Adam Opel and McCann Erickson German Tom Waits Mimick Ad Settlement
San Francisco, CA: Tom Waits has settled his lawsuit against the carmaker Adam Opel AG and a German advertising agency over television commercials that he says mimicked his vocal style without his permission. The ads, made two years ago by McCann Erickson Germany for Opel, a division of General Motors, showed car owners putting their vehicles away to th... - Officials Investigate GM, Honda Airbag Recalls
Jun-20-13 Washington, DC If it seems as though airbag recalls are in the news a lot, you might not be all that far off. News stories about federal officials investigating airbag failures are frequently published, with officials now investigating GM and Honda airbag problems. Some airbag recalls are the result of airbag injuries, caused when an airbag failed to d... - California Court Approves Taylor Farms Wage and Hour Settlement
Nov-25-20 Sacramento, CA On November 2, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California approved an agreement to settle Del Carmen Pena v. Taylor Farms Pacific Inc. The workers allege that Taylor Farms failed to pay them for time spent "donning and doffing" equipment; provide them with rest and meal breaks; and issue paychecks in a timel... - Vehicles Recalled Due To Defective Airbags
Dec-3-12 Detroit, MI When people buy vehicles, they expect that safety features such as side airbags will work as expected, because when cars have defective airbags, passengers in the vehicle can suffer serious injuries. Unfortunately, airbag failure can and does happen, putting the health and safety of people in the defective vehicle at risk. In November, G... - Fiat General Motors Settlement
Fiat has accepted a $2 billion settlement which terminates an option that could have forced General Motors Corp. to purchase 90 percent of Fiat's auto unit. The companies have agreed to dissolve a 2000 partnership pact, and GM will return its 10 percent stake in Fiat's auto division. (Feb-13-05) [ ABC NEWS ] Legal Help If you have a similar p... - Parche Ortho Evra - Coágulos en Sangre, Accidentes Cerebrovasculares e Infartos
Actualmente, se investiga un juicio fundado en una acción colectiva por fraude al consumidor contra Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., fabricantes del parche anticonceptivo Ortho Evra. Esta investigación pretende determinar si Ortho-McNeil omitió revelar que los efectos secundarios y riesgos de coágulos, accidentes cerebrovascualr... - Airbag Lawsuits Allege Serious Airbag Injuries
May-2-12 Orlando, FL When it comes to safety devices, there may be none with stakes as high as those of airbags, but allegations of airbag injuries suggest that even the commonly used safety devices may fail to work as planned. Since airbags were first used in cars, there have been claims that defective airbags caused serious injury to car passengers. Perhaps t... - Airbag Lawsuit Alleges Airbag Failure
Apr-10-12 Dallas, TX Since the advent of the vehicular airbag, society has come to rely on the ubiquitous balloon to provide protection from and prevention of serious injury resulting from a crash. The promise, if you will, that the airbag will be there when we need it. Airbag failure does not enter the mind. However, such a failure is at the root of an airbag l... - Ted Olson - Bush Administration Preemption Gang - Part II
Mar-3-08 Washington, DC: Theodore Olson was one of the masterminds behind the Arkansas Project, which operated between 1993 and 1997, with the single-minded goal of trying to dig up, or in the alternative manufacture, enough dirt to get rid of the twice elected President, Bill Clinton. His lies to Congress about his role in this sordid affair nearly derailed his... - Preemption - Bush Administration Backs Medtronic in Supreme Court - Part I
Jan-1-08 Washington, DC: Under the arguments made before the US Supreme Court on December 4, 2007, by Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler, on behalf of the Bush Administration, in support of the medical device maker Medtronic, American citizens injured by a defective device would not be allowed to sue the manufacturer of a product, ever. In a nutshell, the g... - Pizza Recall: Lawyer Demands General Mills Pay Medical Expenses
Nov-30-07 St. Louis, MO General Mills produced and distributed 120 million pizzas throughout the US during an E. coli outbreak that was linked to the company's Totino's and Jeno's pizzas. However, although the company did announce a recall, it only involved 5 million of those 120 pizzas produced. Considering that General Mills, the sixth largest food company in t...