The federal government has ordered that Fiat Chrysler must offer to buy back over 500,000 RAM pickup trucks and other vehicles as part of their settlement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to settle legal programs stemming from two dozen safety...
Automobile Defects
$2.7 Million in Sanctions Against Attorneys and Client Upheld For Discovery Abuses
At The Brandi Law Firm, we represent a number of people wrongfully injured by defective products, unsafe vehicles, or dangerous roads. In virtually every case, pretrial discovery allows the parties an opportunity to obtain documents and data from each other, such as...
Mitsubishi Recalls 459,618 Vehicles due to Sun Visor Defect
Mitsubishi will be recalling 459,618 vehicles due to a defect with the installation of the passenger sun visor. The problem is that during a frontal accident resulting in frontal airbag deployment, there is the potential for the passenger sun visor to detach if the...
Toyota Recalls Over 3 Million Vehicles Due to Defective Passenger Air Bags
Toyota has announced that it will recall 3,042,523 vehicles due to the defective Takata passenger air bags that were installed previously. This announcement expands previous recalls issued by Toyota to include an additional 2,039,523 vehicles. Toyota has issued two...
Takata Admits Defects in Airbags, 34 Million Vehicles to be Recalled
After repeatedly denying and refusing to believe that their airbags were defective even though multiple incidents were reported, on May 19, 2015, Takata finally acknowledged the obvious and admitted that their airbags were defective. As a result, Takata has agreed to...
Toyota Recalls 636,331 Vehicles Due to Defective Air Bags in Three Separate Recalls
Toyota has announced three separate recalls, two of which are expansions or previous recalls, which involve air bag defects in older Toyota model vehicles. The first recall involves 159,700 Toyota RAV4 vehicles manufactured May 13, 2003, to October 25, 2005 that are...
GM Recalls 87,063 Chevrolet Malibu Vehicles due to Roof Panel Defect
Due to a software defect in the slide or tilt function for the roof panel, General Motors will recall 87,063 Chevrolet Malibu vehicles that were manufactured from October 24, 2011 to March 5, 2015. The models include the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Malibus. These vehicles...
Graco Fined $10 Million in Civil Penalties due to Untimely Notification of Defect
On March 20, 2015, the U.S. Transportation announced that Graco Children’s Products had been fined $10 million after the company failed to provide timely notification of a defect in their car seats regarding a defective buckle that resulted in more than 4 million car...
Toyota Recalls 110,085 Newer Model Vehicles Due to Power Steering Failure
Toyota will recall 110,085 newer model Toyota Camrys, Highlanders, and RAV4s due a manufacturing processing error of the electric power steering component. The subject vehicles are equipped with an electric power steering (EPS) system consisting of an EPS electronic...
Honda Expands Air Bag Recall to 104,871 Older Model Vehicles
Honda continues to expand the air bag recall that has affected millions of vehicles due to defective Takata inflator parts. Honda will now be recalling an additional 104,871 vehicles as a result this defect. In March 2015, Honda began matching Takata airbag inflator...