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| Tesla Owner's Suit Blames Sudden Acceleration For Crash |  | A South Korean actor has slapped Tesla Motors Inc. with a proposed class action in California federal court claiming he and a passenger were injured when his Model X SUV crashed through his garage and into his living room due to a sudden and unintended acceleration while he was parking.
Steven Trader, Law360.com 01/04/2017    | | Read Article: Law360.com |
| J&J Judge Slashes $1 Billion Verdict Over Pinnacle Hip Implants | | Johnson & Johnson won a ruling cutting almost in half a $1.04 billion jury award to patients who accused the company of hiding defects in its Pinnacle artificial hips that had to be surgically removed. A judge on Tuesday left undisturbed a jury's finding that officials of J&J and its DePuy unit failed to properly warn doctors and patients about the artificial hips' flaws, but found the panel's punitive-damage awards to six patients were excessive and should be reduced, according to court filings. 'Constitutional considerations limit the amount a plaintiff may recover in punitive damages,' U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade in Dallas said in the ruling.
Jef Feeley, Bloomberg 01/04/2017 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
| 2 Credit-Reporting Agencies Must Pay $23 Million for Deceptive Practices | | The nation's consumer watchdog agency on Tuesday ordered the credit-reporting agencies TransUnion and Equifax to pay more than $23.2 million in fines and restitution for deceiving customers about the usefulness of credit scores and the cost of obtaining them. The watchdog agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the payments would resolve charges that TransUnion and Equifax had lured consumers into enrolling in credit services advertised as free or costing only $1, but which could cost more than $200 a year.
Reuters, The New York Times 01/04/2017 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| New Orleans Releases Details in $13.3M Civil Rights Case Settlements | | City officials have released the details of settlement agreements it reached with the families of three major civil rights cases that occurred before and after Hurricane Katrina. Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced the total amount of the settlements, $13.3 million, but the city did not release the details of the agreements or what each of the 17 plaintiffs were receiving. The city released all but one of the settlement agreements in response to a NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune public records request. The settlements cover three separate incident, all of which involved the police-involved killings of unarmed civilians.
Kevin Litten, New Orleans Times-Picayune 01/04/2017 | | Read Article: New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| Damages Awarded to Thousands of Women Secretly Recorded by Doctor | | Thousands of women who were believed to be secretly videotaped or photographed by a Maryland gynecologist are now eligible for financial compensation. Over 8,000 former patients of the doctor could receive damages ranging from less than $2,000 to more than $26,000, says a letter received by one of the victims. Baltimore police discovered more than 1,300 videos and images that were surreptitiously recorded by the doctor during pelvic exams. A settlement of the case was announced in July 2014. The gynecologist, who had worked at Johns Hopkins for 25 years, killed himself during the investigation in 2013.
Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun 12/30/2016 | | Read Article: Baltimore Sun |
| NHTSA Opens Probe Into Hyundai's Detaching Seat Belts | | NHTSA has opened an investigation into more than 300,000 Hyundai Sonata sedans with allegedly faulty seat belt mechanisms after reports of multiple incidents and at least one injury. The NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation initiated its preliminary evaluation on Dec. 27 after two consumer complaints detailing a failure of the front passenger side seat belt anchor pretensioners in model year 2013 Sonata vehicles manufactured by Hyundai Motor America Inc.
Matthew Guarnaccia, Law360.com 01/04/2017 | | Read Article: Law360.com |
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