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27 Feb 2009, 10:47 am
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. - - which reaffirmed the rule of Mother Cobb's Chicken. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 2:41 am
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 863 P.2d 795, 823 (Cal. 1993) (“as a result of a defendant's tortious conduct”); Meyer v. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 5:04 am
The fascinating, and ultimately frustrating, pair of decisions in Guinan v. [read post]
14 Feb 2009, 11:56 am
This post is by my colleagues Gail Lees, Andrew Tulumello, Chip Nierlich, Mark Whitburn and Chris Chorba. [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 8:39 pm
According to an article we recently read, a new report, Ford Explorers in Fatal, Tire-related Crashes: Before and After the Firestone Recall, written by Randy and Alice Whitfield, discussed the finding that approximately 65% of 501 deaths occurred after the Bridgestone-Firestone Wildnerness ATX tire recall - which is what was blamed for 173 Explorer rollover deaths in 2000. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 9:54 am
You may remember the Bridgestone/Firestone tire recall about a decade ago, which affected hundreds of thousands of cars and trucks; those tires are actually blamed for multiple deaths from tire blowouts that caused drivers to lose control at high speeds. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 8:33 am
Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC, 533 F.3d 578 (7th Cir. 2008).The plaintiffs in Manez were the family of a Mexican citizen who was killed in Veracruz, Mexico after a tire installed on his Ford Explorer exploded. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 8:33 am
Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC, 533 F.3d 578 (7th Cir. 2008).The plaintiffs in Manez were the family of a Mexican citizen who was killed in Veracruz, Mexico after a tire installed on his Ford Explorer exploded. [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]
23 Dec 2008, 8:50 am
In their article, Schwartz and Hack point out that a prior Supreme Court decision, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. v. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 3:54 pm
Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. et al. [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 3:35 pm
Since then, according to a Detroit Free Press article, a new investigation into Ford Motor Company has been initiated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), prompting additional warnings.Anyone who remembers the large death toll that the Ford-Firestone tire malfunction caused, realizes that catching a defect in an auto part early on can be a matter of life and death. [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 6:57 pm
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. (1993) 6 Cal.4th 965, authorized recovery for medical monitoring, at least in some instances, even in the absence of physical injury. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 1:52 pm
Bridgestone Firestone announced the voluntary recall on Oct. 29, 2008, of approximately 135,000 Firestone FR380 P235/75 R15 tires and 27,000 LeMans Champion SE P235/75 R15 tires. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 9:15 am
The second study, Societal Costs of Dangerous Products: An Empirical Investigation, looks at the costs of injuries and fatalities associated with Ford SUVs with Firestone tires, the drug Baycol, and all terrain vehicles (ATVs). [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 8:27 am
Firestone Tires: Bridgestone/Firestone is recalling over 135,000 Firestone FR380 tires, size P235/75R15 manufactured between June 4, 2006 and September 8, 2007, as well as almost 27,000 LEMANS Champion SE Tires of the same size due to being produced with insufficient tread base gauge. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 8:19 am
Some 140,000 Bridgestone/Firestone tires are being recalled today. [read post]
27 Oct 2008, 9:00 am
When some Firestone tires were believed to be defective, government investigations, combined with news-media scrutiny, led to higher tire-safety standards. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 12:56 am
As one auto safety researcher Sean Kane, who tracked the Ford-Firestone case, said, “Unexpected air pressure loss in tires presents unreasonable risk to motor vehicle safety, regardless of whether there are documented crashes. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 5:37 am
“If a new TLD is .tires, Firestone should get domain names there, but Marriott, which has nothing to do with tires, doesn’t need to register all permutations of its name in that TLD. [read post]
