Just last week, a judge approved a $10 million settlement for the family of a California Highway Patrol officer in a Toyota sudden acceleration lawsuit. The officer and three others died when their car sped out of control and crashed in 2009. According to a March 2 lawsuit filed by the victim’s family, the vehicle [...]
Just last week a federal judge said that he expects the first lawsuits against Japanese automaker Toyota about alleged acceleration issues to go to trial in 2013. U.S. District Judge James Selna, who oversees the consolidated economic class action and personal injury lawsuits in the litigation, gave the date in a status hearing last week. [...]
Earlier this week, Japanese automaker Toyota agreed to pay $32.4 million in penalties after two federal investigations faulted the company for its handling of recent car recalls, according to an announcement from the U.S. Transportation Department. These fines, according to the department, are the highest allowed by law. The fines come amid ongoing investigations that [...]
An arbitrator has ruled that Dimitrios Biller, a former Toyota attorney turned whistleblower, can submit internal Toyota documents in court to prove his claim that the company instructed him to hide evidence of product defects from the public. Biller, who handled product liability lawsuits for Toyota, claims the automaker regularly hid evidence of safety defects [...]
