Category: General

The Morning Risk Report: Auto Regulator Flexes Muscle

By JOEL SCHECTMAN “This signals that NHTSA is getting serious in its safety watchdog role,” said Todd Tracy, a Dallas-based attorney who specializes in product liability cases against automakers. “There was a sense that they had kept their head in the sand for far too long. You are going to

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Takata Says No to Fund for Victims of Defective Airbag

Congressional hearing last month urged Takata executive to create a compensation fund for victims similar to one established by General Motors after its ignition switch recall. Kevin Kennedy, an executive vice president, from Takata said, “Takata believes that a national compensation fund is not currently required,” 

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Honda & Government Confirms new 8th Takata Air Bag Death

A women named Jewel Brangman, 26 in Los Angles-area is known to be dead as the 8th victim of deadly Takata Airbag defect affecting so many people all across the United States. She died from neck and head injuries when the driver’s air bag in her rented 2001 Honda Civic inflated

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