Latest Toyota Motor Corporation Stories
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Domestic auto brands, as a whole, have demonstrated higher initial quality than import brands for the first time, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 U.S. Initial Quality Study(SM) (IQS) released today. The study has been conducted annually for the past 24 years. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100617/LA22442) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100617/LA22442) (Logo:...
HOUSTON, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vujasinovic & Beckcom Law Firm has filed a product liability lawsuit in Houston, Texas state court on behalf of an Oklahoma special education teacher who suffered a brain injury when her 2006 Toyota Prius ran off a curving road and crashed in to an electrical box in Briggs, Oklahoma. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100602/DA14600) Attorney Vuk Vujasinovic represents Brenda Bishop in her claims against Gulf States Toyota, Inc., Toyota...
WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The independent North American Quality Advisory Panel charged with assessing Toyota's strengthened safety and quality assurance practices will meet with Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM) president Akio Toyoda and other top executives next week in Japan. While in Japan the panel, led by former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater, will: confirm that it is initiating a rigorous peer review of the study of Toyota's electronic throttle...
CHARLESTON, W.Va., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- United States District Court Judge James V. Selna of the Central District of California Friday appointed West Virginia attorney Benjamin Bailey as one of nine lawyers to the Plaintiffs' Counsel Committee for Economic Loss in the national lawsuit filed against Toyota Motor Corporation. The more than 300 cases pending against Toyota and any other future lawsuits will be consolidated and litigated by the legal team appointed by Judge Selna. Bailey is a...
MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- After hearing from dozens of plaintiffs' attorneys last week, on April 9, 2010, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation announced it has selected the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to hear litigation surrounding Toyota sudden unintended acceleration (SUA). Lawsuits include both individual personal injury claims and consumer class actions filed on behalf of Toyota owners who claim the value of their vehicles...
TORRANCE, Calif., April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., today announced it has established a new SMART business process utilizing existing product engineers, Field Technical Specialists and specially trained technicians to quickly and aggressively investigate customer reports of unintended acceleration in Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles in the United States. The rapid-response Swift Market Analysis Response Team will attempt to contact customers within 24 hours...
HOUSTON, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Houston, Texas personal injury law firm of Vujasinovic & Beckcom, PLLC filed a lawsuit today in Los Angeles County, California, on behalf of four businessmen who were injured in a vehicle crash during a business trip in the Township of Pittsfield, Washtenaw County, Michigan. The crash occurred on February 13, 2010, while the businessmen occupied a rented 2010 Toyota Camry that was under three separate recalls related to a defective acceleration...
ERLANGER, Ky., March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Toyota announced today that it has formed a new North American Quality Task Force led by senior automobile manufacturing executive Steve St. Angelo, who is Executive Vice President of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA). He will guide the implementation of regional improvements in concert with the Special Committee for Global Quality led by Toyota Motor Corporation President Akio Toyoda. Mr. St. Angelo was...
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A class action securities lawsuit Squires v Toyota Motor Corporation, et. al., has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division, seeking damages for violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to benefit purchasers of Toyota Motor Corporation ("Toyota" or the "Company") publicly traded securities from December 22, 2006 through February 2, 2010 (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit extends to...
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has filed a complaint on behalf of more than 500,000 Toyota Prius and Lexus Hybrid owners whose vehicles have been recalled by Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court Middle District of Alabama (1:10-CV-96997) against Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. The complaint charges Toyota with breach of express warranty, breach...
