- Brett Emison | January 31, 2010 6:07 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsDid Toyota fix the sticky throttle problem in Europe before it started fixing American cars?? According to a Bloomberg News report, it appears the answer is YES.
After years of denial, including...
- Brett Emison | January 31, 2010 3:57 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAs USA Today reports, Toyota has introduced an advertising campaign designed to convince the public that Toyota is putting you first. But is it really putting its drivers first?
Since Toyota...
- Brett Emison | January 30, 2010 8:38 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsWho is to blame for Toyota's sudden acceleration recall mess? According to a Rush Limbaugh caller, it is President Obama.
RUSH: Marion, Illinois, John, you're next, Open Line Friday....
- Brett Emison | January 30, 2010 8:12 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsI have been documenting the Toyota sudden acceleration and sticky throttle problems for months. Let's see how the Toyota recall numbers stack up.
$29.6 billion -- Cash on hand at Toyota [1]
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- Brett Emison | January 29, 2010 4:01 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsToyota says it has fix for the sticky gas pedals that caused Toyota to expand its sudden acceleration recall multiple times in the last week. Toyota's recall expanded for the third time this week...
- Brett Emison | January 29, 2010 10:14 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsLast week, Toyota expanded its massive sudden acceleration recall to include another 2.3 million vehicles, bringing the total number of vehicles recalled to 6.5 million.
Just days later, USA Today...
- Brett Emison | January 29, 2010 8:11 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsLast week, Toyota expanded its massive sudden acceleration recall to include another 2.3 million vehicles, bringing the total number of vehicles recalled to 6.5 million.
Just days later, USA Today...
- Brett Emison | January 28, 2010 8:27 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAfter multiple recalls for sudden acceleration problems, Toyota now blames many of these events on sticky accelerator pedals. However, ABC News reports that the supplier - CTS - says sticky pedals...
- Brett Emison | January 28, 2010 8:13 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsI have lost count of the number of calls, emails and comments I have received from Toyota owners worried about the safety of their vehicle. These owners do not feel safe in their vehicles, but do...
- Brett Emison | January 28, 2010 7:49 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsLast week, Toyota expanded its massive sudden acceleration recall to include another 2.3 million vehicles, bringing the total number of vehicles recalled to 6.5 million.
Just days later, USA Today...
- Brett Emison | January 28, 2010 11:08 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAfter years of denial, including inaccurate and misleading statements to the public and federal investigators, news broke Tuesday that Toyota would finally stop selling some of its vehicles plagued...
- Brett Emison | January 28, 2010 10:00 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Wall Street Journal has reported that Ford Motor Company has posted a yearly profit for fiscal year 2009.
Net income for the fourth-quarter was $868 million, or 25 cents a share compared with...
- Brett Emison | January 28, 2010 9:59 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Wall Street Journal has reported that Ford Motor Company has posted a yearly profit for fiscal year 2009.
Net income for the fourth-quarter was $868 million, or 25 cents a share compared with...
- Brett Emison | January 28, 2010 9:53 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsThe web version of a Rochester, New York newspaper, ROCnow.com, has reported that a tractor trailer driver who caused a fatal trucking accident had falsified his log books and was watching porn at...
- Brett Emison | January 27, 2010 12:42 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsSeveral sources, including reports from the Washington Post and the NBC Nightly News, have confirmed that the US government has officially prohibited semi-truck drivers and bus drivers from sending...
- Brett Emison | January 27, 2010 11:01 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsLast week, Toyota expanded its massive sudden acceleration recall to include another 2.3 million vehicles, bringing the total number of vehicles recalled to 6.5 million. Just days later, USA Today...
- Brett Emison | January 26, 2010 3:27 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsLast week, Toyota expanded its massive sudden acceleration recall to include another 2.3 million vehicles, bringing the total number of vehicles recalled to 6.5 million. Just days later, USA Today...
- Brett Emison | January 26, 2010 11:22 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsLast week, Toyota expanded its massive sudden acceleration recall to include another 2.3 million vehicles, bringing the total number of vehicles recalled to 6.5 million.
Just days later, USA Today...
- Brett Emison | January 26, 2010 10:58 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsThe Chicago Tribune has reported that an Indiana tractor trailer crash has killed two members of a Chicago-area family. The crash occurred in Shelby County, Indiana, about 30 miles southeast of...
- Brett Emison | January 26, 2010 10:37 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsMySanAntonio.com has reported that Matthew Whatley of Conroe, Texas was killed when a semi-truck slammed into the back of a parked vehicle that had stopped to help the stranded motorist. The...
- Brett Emison | January 25, 2010 8:00 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsLast week, Toyota expanded its massive sudden acceleration recall to include another 2.3 million vehicles, bringing the total number of vehicles recalled to 6.5 million.
Just days later, USA Today...
- Brett Emison | January 25, 2010 5:30 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsSafety Research & Strategies, headed by independent safety expert Sean Kane, has reported that a Concerned Citizen in Franklin, Kentucky has identified broken throttle body shafts as a culprit...
- Brett Emison | January 25, 2010 12:13 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsToyota announced last week an extension of its massive recall due to accelerator problems and recalling another 2.3 million vehicles. Despite its recall of 6.5 million Toyota, Lexus and Pontiac...
- Brett Emison | January 25, 2010 11:33 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsUSA Today reports that many states are considering legislation to curb texting while driving. Nineteen states already have laws on the book and another 23 states will consider measures this...
- Brett Emison | January 25, 2010 5:57 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsToyota expanded its massive sudden acceleration recall to include 2.3 million additional vehicles, bringing the total number of vehicles recalled to 6.5 million. Toyota did not initiate this...
- Brett Emison | January 24, 2010 3:05 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAccording to Examiner.com, Toyota's massive recall has been expanded beyond Toyota and Lexus branded vehicles to include the Pontiac Vibe, which was designed and manufactured by Toyota.
Toyota...
- Brett Emison | January 24, 2010 10:37 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsSeveral news outlets, including the Los Angeles Times and ABC News have reported that Toyota has expanded its recall for accelerator and gas pedal problems, recalling an additional 2.3 million...
- Brett Emison | January 23, 2010 12:34 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsSeveral news sources, including Fox News, the Detroit Free Press, Forbes, ABC News, The Huffington Post, and CNN have reported that Toyota will recall another 2.3 million vehicles because of...
- Brett Emison | January 23, 2010 11:35 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe St. Joe News, of St. Joseph, Missouri, has reported that Missouri traffic deaths in 2009 fell to their lowest numbers since 1950.
The Missouri Highway Patrol credits the reduction in traffic...
- Brett Emison | January 23, 2010 11:20 AM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)ABC News affiliate, WLOX in Biloxi, Mississippi; and the SunHerald have reported that a Long Beach woman was killed Friday night when her vehicle was struck by a train at a railroad...
- Brett Emison | January 20, 2010 11:08 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsUSA Today reported that child product manufacturer, Graco, has announced a massive recall 1.5 million Graco strollers sold and several major retailers, including Wal-Mart and Target.
This recall by...
- Brett Emison | January 19, 2010 12:46 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsCNN has reported that Chrysler Group will recall 24,000 Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep vehicles because of a defective part that could cause sudden, unexpected brake failure.
The recall applies to some...
- Brett Emison | January 17, 2010 11:51 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsThere is additional information available regarding the massive pile-up on I-35 near Wellsville, Kansas that killed a three-year-old boy and injured at least 30 other people, ages 8 to 80. Fox News...
- Brett Emison | January 16, 2010 11:51 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsSeveral news sources including the Kansas City Star and CBS affiliate KCTV have reported that a massive pileup on I-35 near Wellsville, Kansas killed a three-year-old boy and injured 30 others.
You...
- Brett Emison | January 13, 2010 11:13 PM |
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MiscellaneousMeds and Food for Kids is charitable organization founded by Dr. Patricia Wolff of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Wolff, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Washington...
- Brett Emison | January 13, 2010 2:30 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer Accidents
There are many dangers that surround driving 80,000 pound tractor trailers thousands of miles across the country, including trucking accidents at high speeds on America's highways. We rely on...
- Brett Emison | January 10, 2010 11:23 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsThe Chicago Sun-Times and the Springfield News-Sun have each reported that the truck driver in the tractor trailer crash that killed four people near Springfield, Ohio was cited for speeding tickets...
- Brett Emison | January 08, 2010 6:17 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsNBC Action News has reported that a Toyota SUV accelerated out of control at a car wash in Grandview, Missouri, killing 40-year-old Rosland Watson.
The Grandview, Missouri crash comes on the heels...
- Brett Emison | January 08, 2010 5:02 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWe've all seen them: the lady putting on make up while driving, the businessman reading the paper, the teenager texting, the grandmother on a cellular telephone. More and more people are driving...
- Brett Emison | January 08, 2010 4:43 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsABC News has reported that a tractor trailer lost control on Interstate 70 during a snowstorm near Springfield, Ohio, killing at least three people and injuring six more.
In Ohio, a winter...
- Brett Emison | January 07, 2010 9:57 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
The Ford Explorer has been plagued by rollover and stability problems since its inception as the Ford Bronco II in March 1983. More than 25 years later, Ford is still battling the stability...
- Brett Emison | January 07, 2010 11:22 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsBusiness Week has reported that Ford Motor Company was among US companies with the most product defects.
Both plaintiffs and defendant companies are increasingly willing to take product liability...
- Brett Emison | January 06, 2010 9:23 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt will soon be that time of year when many of us anxiously make Spring Break plans. Some will enjoy their break at home; others will fly to a faraway destination; some may even cruise tropical...
- Brett Emison | January 05, 2010 3:37 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsCNNMoney.com has reported that auto sales were up in December for several auto makers. Ford sales jumped 34% from one-year ago and a whopping 50% compared to November. Chrysler sales jumped 36% from...
- Brett Emison | January 04, 2010 5:01 PM |
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MiscellaneousI don't know that any practicing attorney truly enjoys legal research, but every once in a while we come across some truly remarkable case law, such as these gems that a colleague came across today...
- Brett Emison | January 04, 2010 1:52 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe Chicago Tribune has reported that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Counsel, Health Canada and Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc. have announced a recall of more than 200,000 Play Yards with bassinets...
- Brett Emison | January 03, 2010 11:43 AM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)Last week, I commented on a an article from The Buffalo News, whose investigation found that many pilots at smaller regional airlines are dangerously undertrained. This post has generated a spirited...
- Brett Emison | January 03, 2010 10:43 AM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsThe Associated Press has reported that two independent studies have found shortfalls in the FDA approval process for heart devices, such as pacemakers and stents, leading to safety lapses.
The Food...
- Brett Emison | January 03, 2010 10:12 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsNasdaq.com has reported that an Oak Brook, Illinois toymaker, RC2 Corp. has been slapped with a $1.25 million fine for violating the US government's lead paint ban.
The toys in question were...
- Brett Emison | January 03, 2010 9:57 AM |
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Wrongful DeathSeveral news sources including The Kansas City Star, NBC news affiliate, KSHB, and Fox news affiliate Fox 4 Kansas City, have reported that five people were killed from smoke inhalation after a sofa...