Toyota loses $7.3 million in design flaw suit 
Published: February 27, 2012
Tags: car crash, defective design, Mississippi, paralysis, rollover, Toyota
A federal jury has awarded a Jones County, Miss. family more than $7.3 million in a lawsuit against Toyota after a rollover accident resulted in their son’s paralysis.
Toyota employees can’t be deposed in California
Published: August 1, 2011
Tags: deposition, product liability, Toyota
A state court lacked the authority to compel Japanese employees of Toyota to appear for deposition in a product liability suit, the California Court of Appeal has ruled in vacating a discovery order.
Toyota wins case over unintended acceleration
Published: April 5, 2011
Tags: New York, sudden acceleration, sudden unintended acceleration, Toyota, unintended acceleration
A federal jury in New York found that Toyota Motor Corp. isn’t responsible for a 2005 crash that the driver blamed on the floor mat or the electronic throttle, in the first case to go to trial since automaker recalled millions of its vehicles.
More Toyota recalls over floormat-acceleration problems
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: March 2, 2011
Tags: floormat, recall, sudden unintended acceleration, Toyota
Toyota recalled another 2.2 million vehicles last week for floor mat-acceleration pad problems.
Toyota sudden acceleration not an electronic problem
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: February 9, 2011
Tags: NASA, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, sudden acceleration, Toyota
A joint study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and NASA has found no electronic cause of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles.
Toyota to settle lawsuit over Prius headlights that shut off without warning
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: January 21, 2011
Tags: automobile, defective products, headlights, Prius, Toyota
Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over headlights in its 2006 to 2009 Prius hybrids that shut off without warning, triggering at least 2,500 complaints from motorists.
Toyota sudden acceleration trials unlikely for two years
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: January 18, 2011
Tags: sudden acceleration, Toyota
The first of scores of lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Corp. in U.S. federal courts over complaints of unintended acceleration are unlikely to go to trial for at least two years, the judge overseeing the cases has said.
More personal injury litigation highlights of 2010
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: January 6, 2011
Tags: asbestos, defective design, diacetyl, Engle litigation, Ford, nursing home, popcorn lung disease, rollover, second-hand asbestos, sudden unintended acceleration, Taser, tobacco, Toyota
In addition to a wide array of drug litigation, 2010 brought verdicts and settlements involving a number of other products, including Toyota vehicles, asbestos and tobacco. Here is a look at some of the highlights from the year just past.
Insurers sue Toyota over sudden acceleration accidents
By:
Associated Press
Published: January 6, 2011
Tags: sudden unintended acceleration, Toyota
Seven insurance companies have sued Toyota Motor Corp. in an attempt to recover money paid to cover crashes they blame on sudden unintended acceleration.
Lawyers USA’s Top Ten Opinions of 2010
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: January 5, 2011
Tags: cloud computing, economic loss, Engle, ethics, federal preemption, Fourth Amendment, health care reform, product liability, same-sex marriage, search and seizure, sudden unintended acceleration, Toyota
As we flip the calendar, let’s take a look at the ten most significant federal and state decisions of 2010.
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