U.S. Tells Auto Makers They Don’t Have to Recall 56 Million Takata Air Bag Inflators May 7, 2020 By David Shepardson The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Thursday it will not require automakers to recall 56 million additional Takata...
Kobe Steel Can Expect Spate of Lawsuits for Its 10 Years of False Data October 12, 2017 By Christie Smythe and Margaret Cronin Fisk Kobe Steel Ltd.’s legal problems are just beginning in wake of the company’s disclosure that it falsified data for years...
Large Claims Becoming More Expensive, Complex & Global: Allianz April 25, 2017 By L.S. Howard Large liability claims are becoming more expensive, complex and international, with activity increasing outside the United States, according a report...
Takata Engineers ‘Manipulated’ Results of Air-Bag Inflator Tests: Honda Audit July 19, 2016 By Craig Trudell and Margaret Cronin Fisk Takata Corp., the air-bag supplier behind the industry’s largest ever recall, routinely manipulated results of air-bag inflator tests reported to...
Toyota Recalls 3.37M Cars for Flawed Air Bags, Emissions Control Units June 30, 2016 By David Shepardson and Naomi Tajitsu Toyota Motor Corp has recalled 3.37 million cars worldwide over possible defects involving air bags and emissions control units. The...
Toyota, Nissan, Honda Expand Global Recall Due to Faulty Takata Air Bags May 13, 2015 By Chang-Ran Kim and Mari Saito Japan’s three biggest carmakers said on Wednesday they would expand a huge global recall triggered by potentially fatal air bags...
Florida Federal Judge to Hear Exploding Air Bag Lawsuits February 12, 2015 By Curt Anderson Lawsuits filed around the U.S. seeking damages for allegedly defective auto air bags made by Japan’s Takata Corp. have been...
Honda, Nissan Widen Air-Bag Recalls Following Rupture in Japan Scrapyard December 11, 2014 By Ma Jie, Masatsugu Horie and Yuki Hagiwara Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. followed Toyota Motor Corp. in widening global air-bag recalls after one of the...
Air Bag Update: Toyota to Recall 190,000 More Vehicles, Mostly in Japan December 4, 2014 By Chang-Ran Kim and Mari Saito Toyota Motor Corp. said on Thursday it would call back 190,000 more vehicles, mostly in Japan, to replace potentially defective...
Japan Transport Ministry Weighs Additional Air Bag Recalls December 2, 2014 By Ma Jie and Masatsugu Horie Japan’s investigation into dangerous air bags is leading to a remote scrapyard in the central Gifu prefecture, where the explosion...