Toyota Recall Questions – Day 2

February 24, 2010

With enough personal injury and product liability problems to stretch from San Francisco to New York, Toyota CEO and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood appeared separately before Congress.
Secretary LaHood defended NHTSA’s response to the Toyota recall problems and attempted to convey to members of the panel that the agency was not Toyota’s lap-dog.
Ed Towns (D-N.Y.) commented [...]

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Toyota’s Recall Fix May Not Be THE Fix

February 23, 2010

Toyota is facing one of the most dangerous – personal injury related – product liability problems and largest recall in the history of car making, possibly in the entire history of manufacturing.  So, I would think that unambiguous answers from the company’s chief executive before Congress would be a good place to start.  But I [...]

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Near Injury Victims Testify About Toyota Problems

February 23, 2010

As congressional hearings got under way today regarding Toyota’s recall and defective product issues, government officials and Toyota executives weren’t the only ones testifying.
Rhonda Smith, a consumer, former Lexus ES350 owner, and near injury victim testified to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s panel regarding her ordeal when her Lexus raced out of control as she [...]

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Toyota Claims Recall Problems Not Electronic

February 23, 2010

Hearings on capitol hill kick off today on Toyota’s many recall problems.  There are three congressional panels looking into the recall and defective product issues regarding Toyota vehicles that have lead to numerous personal injuries and thirty-four deaths, over eight million cars recalled worldwide, and a loss in confidence in the largest auto maker in [...]

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Toyota Product Defect Probe Closed In 2007 Without Defect Finding

February 23, 2010

Let’s say you go to the doctor.  And the doctor knows something is wrong with you, knows that it could be “extremely dangerous,” and knows that you are going to have more problems as a result of whatever is making you sick, but just decides to send you home anyway and tell you nothing is [...]

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Investigators Believe Toyota Misled the Public

February 23, 2010

As reported by the Huffington Post and other media sources, House investigators believe that Toyota has been unwilling to identify the cause of sudden and unintended acceleration and has misled the public in the process.
In a letter to Toyota from the Congressman that will conduct one of the hearings into Toyota’s recall and product defect [...]

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Toyota Believed Democrats Not As Friendly As Last Administration

February 23, 2010

As reported by Politico and other media sources, internal Toyota documents obtained via subpoena indicate that Toyota viewed Democrats and the Obama administration as less friendly.  And the car maker saw the “changing political environment” as an obstacle that would present significant challenges for Toyota.
What exactly Toyota meant by these pronouncements can be explained by [...]

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FDA Reviews Medical Devices Approval Process

February 18, 2010

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle , the Food and Drug Administration is holding public meetings today to review changes to the process by which medical devices are approved.
Currently, many manufactures of medical devices use a pre-market approval process that is known as the 510(k) process.  The process allows manufacturers to get medical devices [...]

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San Francisco Muni Passengers Suffer Personal Injuries In Accident

February 18, 2010

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle , earlier today a Muni Metro train and a streetcar were invalid in an accident that sent three people to local hospitals with personal injuries.
According to the San Francisco paper, the personal injury accident took place on San Jose Avenue at about 6:20 a.m. and near Highland Avenue.
The [...]

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Toyota Product Liability Time Line

February 15, 2010

If you are like me, you have been following the Toyota product recall pretty closely.  There have been allegations of injuries and wrongful deaths resulting from unintentional acceleration, lawsuits, allegations that government officials did little to stop this mess, and even allegations that Toyota lured away NHTSA senior employees only to use them to shut [...]

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