Car manufacturers continue to place short-term profits ahead of consumer safety. Even with the infamous faulty tire scandal in 2000, automakers still cut corners in its design features, which poses the risk of personal injuries and wrongful deaths for unsuspecting drivers and passengers. Despite years of highly-publicized questions over faulty and neglectful car and tire manufacturing […]
Product Liability / Defective Products
Ford Explorer SUV Wrongful Deaths
On evening of July 5, 2006, Tongan Prince Uluvala Tu’ipelehake and Princess Kaimana Tu’ipelehake were rear-seat passengers in a 1998 Ford Explorer SUV on U.S. 101, Menlo Park, California. Both wore seatbelts. The SUV was owned by John Hiss and driven by Vinisia Hefa. A 1998 Ford Mustang was being driven by 18 year-old Edith […]
Ford Settlement Distortions: Personal Injuries and Wrongful Death Claims Are Not Affected
Ford settled a class action lawsuit in Sacramento and then proceeded to lie to the public and media, claiming that the settlement ended all outstanding lawsuits against Ford stemming from Explorer rollovers, which would include all lawsuits for personal injuries and wrongful deaths. As reported in this Associated Press article, Ford spokeswoman Kristen Kinley claimed […]
Personal Injuries and Wrongful Death Caused by Tire Manufacturers’ Cost Cutting, Employees Paid on a Commission Basis
Many tire-manufacturing workers are paid on a commission basis, depending on the number of tires they produced or inspect each day. The commission compensation system for tire builders is intended to promote the manufacture of defective tires and consumers pay for it with tire failures that cause personal injuries and deaths. The incentive is to […]
Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths Caused by Defective Product Warnings In California
Civil Code section 1714.45 claims not to change longstanding product liability law as stated in Cronin v. J.B.E. Olson Corp. (1972) 8 Cal.3d 121, the statute provides that manufacturers and sellers are not liable for products that are “inherently unsafe and … known to be unsafe by the ordinary consumer who consumes the product with […]
