Tag Archives: Auto defects
Toyota to enter into $1.2 billion settlement over sudden acceleration issues
A report published by CNN on Wednesday, March 19 revealed that Toyota will pay around $1.2 billion to settle safety issues and for deliberately misleading customers and the government over concerns of sudden acceleration. According to the agreement between the Justice Department and the Japanese car giant, the government will monitor Toyota while charges against the… Read More »
Hyundai to pay $14 million in airbag defect trial
In early July, a U.S. federal court ordered automaker Hyundai Motor Co. to pay a Virginia man and his family $14 million in damages after he sustained traumatic brain damage in a car accident 3 years ago. The Federal court in Pulaski County ruled after an eight hours of deliberation that Zachary Duncan sustained… Read More »