Man wins $13 million verdict against Ford 
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: October 21, 2010
Tags: Arkansas, defective design, Ford, seatbelt
In what’s believed to be the largest federal verdict over defective seat belt design, an Arkansas man has won $19 million from Ford Motor Company.
General Motors recalls 250,000 vehicles due to seatbelt errors
By:
Allison McAndrew
Published: August 18, 2010
Tags: General Motors, GM, recalls, seatbelt
General Motors is voluntarily recalling 243,403 vehicles worldwide to inspect second-row seatbelts that may not latch.
Jury awards $6.5M to boy injured by Ford seatbelt
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: November 16, 2009
Tags: product liability, seatbelt
A Memphis, Tenn., jury returned a $6.5-million judgment Friday against Ford Motor Co. on behalf of a boy who was critically injured in a 2002 two-car crash that also killed three men, including his father and grandfather.
Federal law doesn’t preempt seatbelt claims against Greyhound
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: July 2, 2009
Tags: seatbelt
A federal judge in California has ruled that Greyhound may be liable for failing to provide passengers with seatbelts on the company’s buses. Click here for the full article from PRWeb, and click here for the full text of the opinion.
Seatbelt evidence inadmissible
By:
Nora Tooher
Published: June 16, 2009
Tags: seatbelt
Ford should not have been allowed to introduce evidence of a driver’s pre-impact failure to wear a seatbelt, a Pennsylvania appellate court has ruled.
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