The mother of a 17-year-old girl killed in a hit-and-run accident in Escondido, California is suing the woman accused of the teenager’s death for $25 million. The wrongful-death lawsuit, filed in Vista Superior Court, alleges that Tiffany St. Ives, 54, may have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol…
A panel of federal judges in San Diego, California is expected to rule on whether to consolidate a large number of lawsuits filed nationwide against Toyota. Toyota has been inundated with lawsuits due to safety concerns that have led to the recall of more than eight-and-a-half million vehicles worldwide. Federal…
More than 100 deaths have now been blamed on sudden acceleration of Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, nearly twice the number that had been reported two months ago, according to a Times review of public records. With a recent surge of complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration factored in,…
Federal regulators in 2007 asked Toyota Motor Corp. to consider installing software to prevent sudden acceleration in its vehicles after receiving complaints that vehicles could race out of control, company documents show. Yet the automaker began installing the safety feature, known as brake override, only this January after a widely…
A Seattle couple have sued Toyota in federal court, demanding that the company either take back the vehicle they just bought or reimburse them for its loss in value since the automaker’s sudden-acceleration troubles became news. The lawsuit alleges that the issues plaguing Toyota violate the state’s Consumer Protection Act…
The Texas Supreme Court threw out a $15.8 million verdict, ruling unanimously that lawyers improperly introduced evidence that a gravel truck driver involved in a 2002 accident that killed four members of a Wise County family was an illegal immigrant. By repeatedly mentioning the truck driver’s immigration status, lawyers for…
The city of Los Angeles paid $7 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a volunteer for the Los Angeles Triathlon, who was left a paraplegic by an accident during the event in 2007, according to his attorney. Steve Albala, who was 60 at the time of the accident, was…
The family of the man whose Aug. 28 death spurred the first recall of Toyota vehicles for unintended acceleration has filed a products liability and negligence lawsuit against the Japanese automaker. Mark Saylor, 45, a California Highway Patrol Officer, was killed along with his family after the 2009 Lexus he…
Family members of a Fort Worth woman killed in a December wreck involving an allegedly intoxicated off-duty Fort Worth police officer filed suit today against the Fort Worth bar at which the officer had been drinking. At a news conference in Dallas today, the family’s attorney said the family of…
Monty and Linda Hardy had taken their 2008 Toyota Avalon to a Grapevine dealership “several times” with complaints about uncommanded acceleration but were told there was nothing wrong, their attorney says. On the day after Christmas, Monty Hardy was driving the Toyota in Southlake when it sped through a T-intersection,…