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8 Jan 2008, 1:26 pm
And trust law, to which ERISA is so intimately linked, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. [read post]
17 May 2010, 8:49 am
It is the first serious look at auto safety undertaken by Congress since the deadly accidents involving Firestone tires and the Ford Explorer a decade ago. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 11:17 am by Joseph Lamy
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has investigated the problems which may be the worst since the Ford and Firestone Tire debacle. [read post]
17 Feb 2018, 4:28 am
They’re both wrong, but so is this tired mothers-and-daughters framing, which threatens to derail substantive debate in favor of a catfight narrative.I note the assertion that both sides are missing nuance. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 9:02 am by Dave Maass
The cables were an important source of information in ProPublica and Frontline’s project called Firestone and the Warlord about how the iconic American tire company helped finance warlord Charles Taylor’s rise to power. [read post]
14 Mar 2014, 9:32 am
For instance, in the late 1990s it failed “to detect a wave of highway rollovers in Ford Explorers with Firestone tires. [read post]
6 Jul 2023, 12:52 am by Eleonora Rosati
The Court referred to the principles set out in General Tire v Firestone Tyre regarding the assessment of “negotiating damages”, namely damages reflecting the sum that would have been agreed between a willing licensor and a willing licensee.In applying General Tire, the Court found that the hypothetical negotiations need to be set in the market as it exists, taking into account the commercial realities of the specific situation. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 6:27 am by Joy Waltemath
It then found that the LTD plan vested Sedgwick with broad discretionary authority, triggering a deferential standard of review under the Supreme Court’s decision in Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. [read post]
7 May 2010, 8:20 am by Joe Consumer
Auto Safety: On the front page of the New York Times today, you can find an article called, "In Washington, a Renewed Taste for Auto Safety" (see some of our earlier coverage here): For the first time since Firestone tires were exploding on Ford Explorers a decade ago, Congress on Thursday began working on legislation that would impose far-reaching safety standards on the auto industry, including some steps that advocates have been seeking for years. [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 11:58 am by Moseley Collins
Stupak is a senior member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which held high-profile hearings and pushed for new auto safety requirements following the massive recall of Firestone tires in 2000. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 12:31 pm by rreeves
The next few months should show whether the problem has really been fixed permanently, or if the accelerator pedals could be for Toyota what the Firestone tires were for Ford. [read post]
3 Jan 2009, 11:10 am
Chrysler recall numbers were down a little, but Ford's recall numbers were down substantially from last year.The government statistics come from a database that was created in 2000 which Congress mandated federal bureaucrats (in charge of overseeing the actual safety investigators) to begin keeping the numbers and making them public, largely because of the recall of 14 million Firestone tires that had been linked to the deaths of more than 270 people, mostly in Ford Explorers… [read post]
7 May 2010, 8:20 am by Joe Consumer
Auto Safety: On the front page of the New York Times today, you can find an article called, "In Washington, a Renewed Taste for Auto Safety" (see some of our earlier coverage here): For the first time since Firestone tires were exploding on Ford Explorers a decade ago, Congress on Thursday began working on legislation that would impose far-reaching safety standards on the auto industry, including some steps that advocates have been seeking for years. [read post]
12 Sep 2008, 2:36 pm
It was largely the result of the Firestone tire and Ford Explorer rollovers fiasco that caught federal safety investigators by surprise.Opening up online, the searchable database finally gives consumers a chance to see what known defects are out there on cars and trucks so they can avoid buying used lemons. [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 11:58 am by Moseley Collins
Stupak is a senior member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which held high-profile hearings and pushed for new auto safety requirements following the massive recall of Firestone tires in 2000. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 12:41 pm by Dionne Searcey
According to NLJ, Cabraser was among the lead attorneys in a 2007 class action involving consumers who had safety concerns about their Ford Explorers with Firestone tires. [read post]