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“The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has acknowledged what it has emphatically denied so far: Not all instances of Toyota Unintended Acceleration are linked to sticky pedals, floor mats or driver error,” said Safety Research & Strategies Inc. (SRS) in a report Wednesday.
The family of a Marine who served two tours of combat duty in Iraq only to be killed in Knoxville, Tennessee, when his Toyota Yaris suddenly sped out of control, is suing the carmaker. The new lawsuit is one of the latest cases to join the multi-district litigation involving sudden, unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus cars, which have been consolidated in a Santa Ana, California, federal court under Judge James Selna.
U.S. District Judge James Selna, who is presiding over multi-district litigation involving sudden-acceleration claims against Toyota, has set three trials to go forward in 2013, including the Utah lawsuit that he previously dismissed over a technicality.
The federal judge overseeing lawsuits filed in federal courts against Toyota for sudden unintended acceleration damages has dismissed the lawsuit previously selected as the first bellwether case, saying it belonged in a Utah State court.
The federal judge presiding over multi-district litigation (MDL) involving sudden-acceleration claims against Toyota said Monday he may reject the auto maker’s motion seeking to toss the first of hundreds of lawsuits.
ST. PAUL, MINN – Koua Fong Lee, who was imprisoned in 2007 after his Toyota Camry suddenly accelerated and crashed into traffic, killing three, gave an interview to the St. Paul Pioneer Press recently, looking back his wrongful conviction and subsequent release.
Scores of people lashed out at Toyota on its Facebook fan page after hearing that the company repossessed a murdered woman’s 2003 Camry, even though it was current on all of its payments. The repossession made life even more difficult for the children of the single Colorado mother as they tried repeatedly to make an arrangement with Toyota to reclaim the impounded car, only to have their pleas fall on deaf ears.
Toyota has motioned for a second time that all economic-loss claims filed against it in the shadow of its sudden unintended acceleration problems be thrown out, but the judge overseeing the litigation has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, saying they have sufficient grounds to move forward.
A man who was imprisoned and subsequently released after his 1996 Camry sped out of control and crashed into another vehicle, killing three people, is seeking additional damages against Toyota.
A California Superior Court judge has approved the $10-million settlement between Toyota Motor Corp. and members of a family that was killed when their rented Lexus ES350 sped out of control near San Diego, California, and crashed. The decision leaves Bob Baker Lexus, the company that loaned Mark Saylor and his family the doomed car while theirs had been submitted for maintenance, to fend for itself against unresolved negligence and wrongful death claims the Saylor estate has made.
