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Judge Rejects Class-Action Claims in Toyota Brake Case
A federal judge in California has dismissed a request to grant class-action status to a lawsuit filed by four owners of Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, Bloomberg News reports.
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A federal judge in California has dismissed a request to grant class-action status to a lawsuit filed by four owners of Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, Bloomberg News reports.
The plaintiffs sued for damages based on the company's recall in 2010 of 147,500 Toyota Prius and Lexus HS 250h hybrids in the U.S. to fix a software flaw in the vehicles' anti-lock braking system.
The court ruled that three of the plaintiffs and most of the purported class suffered no harm from the ABS problem.
The judge also threw out one of the four individual cases and said two other plaintiffs are unlikely to prevail. He told the fourth claimant, who blames the brakes on his Prius for an accident, that his lawsuit could proceed to trial.
The ABS campaign was not part of Toyota's U.S. recall of 7.7 million vehicles in 2009-2010 to fix loose floor mats and sticky accelerator pedals linked to unintended acceleration. The latter recalls are the subject of numerous other lawsuits seeking class-action status.
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