BMW Reaches $478M Settlement Over Water Damaged Cars
More than 300,000 BMW owners will soon be eligible to claim their portion of a $478 million settlement over allegations that a design defect resulted in water damage to electrical components in vehicles’ trunks.
Reuters reports that the settlement, filed in U.S. District Court in New York last week, resolves a class-action...
2016-2017 Chevrolet Cruze recalled: 17,000 vehicles affected
General Motors is recalling more than 17,000 Cruze vehicles from the 2016 and 2017 model years. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration the seats in some of those vehicles may have been improperly manufactured.
The problem is limited to the Cruze's driver and front passenger seats. According to the National...
Weak Reporting System Let Risky Surgical Device Stay in Use
Doctors and hospitals failed to tell the Food and Drug Administration about cases in which cancer was spread around inside women’s bodies by a surgical tool used to operate on the uterus, according to a report issued on Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office.
Scattering cancer cells worsens the disease and decreases...
BMW agrees to settle vehicle water damage suit for up to $478 million
German automaker BMW AG (BMWG.DE) has agreed to pay up to $477.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit covering about 318,000 U.S. luxury car owners who may have suffered water damage harming electrical components in vehicle trunks.
According to settlement documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York last week, the settlement...
Doctor gets $11.4 million settlement in whistleblower suit
A Texas physician has been awarded $11.4 million in a federal whistleblower lawsuit against a major U.S. hospital service provider.
Dr. Bijan Oughatiyan filed the lawsuit against his former employer, IPC Healthcare Inc., in the Northern District of Illinois, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago. IPC Healthcare Inc. is based in...
Takata to plead guilty Feb. 27: court documents
Japan's Takata Corp is set to plead guilty Feb. 27 in federal court in Detroit to a single felony count of wire fraud to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into ruptures of its air bag inflators linked to at least 16 deaths worldwide, according to a court filing Tuesday.
Last month, the...
Maserati recalls nearly 40,000 Quattroporte, Ghibli, Levante vehicles due to risk of fires
Maserati is recalling at least 39,381 Quattroporte, Levante and Ghibli vehicles after discovering two separate defects that could lead to fires.
According to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, adjusting the front seats could cause the seat writing harness to rub against metal points, leading the seats to malfunction. In...
Women Fear Drug They Used To Halt Puberty Led To Health Problems
For years, Sharissa Derricott, 30, had no idea why her body seemed to be failing. At 21, a surgeon replaced her deteriorated jaw joint. She’s been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition. Her teeth are shedding enamel and cracking.
None of it made sense to her until she...
Nevada woman’s death from superbug a ‘wake-up call’
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Reno officials got a report on the “nightmare bacteria” in late August.
A Washoe County woman in her 70s had been admitted to a local hospital with a full-body response to an infection. It was carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, a bug resistant to all 26 federally approved antibiotics....
Chevrolet Suburban HD SUVs Recalled for Mirrors
General Motors is recalling 214 2016- and 2017-model year Chevrolet Suburban HD SUVs because they were assembled with a convex right-hand outside mirror instead of a non-convex (flat) right-hand outside mirror.
The vehicles fail to comply with all federal safety standards as a result of the problem, according to the National Highway...
