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• Ford Settles Lawsuit, and then Lies Again

  Brian Foley | November 29, 2007 10:14 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Ford settled a class action lawsuit in Sacramento on Wednesday but then proceeded to lie to the public and media, claiming that the settlement ended all outstanding lawsuits against Ford stemming from Explorer rollovers.As reported in this Associated Press article, Ford spokeswoman Kristen Kinley claimed that the settlement, which will provide vouchers to Explorer owners to buy other Ford...

• Faulty Tires are Still on the Road

  Brian Foley | November 28, 2007 2:56 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Car manufacturers continue to place short-term profits ahead of consumer safety. Even with the infamous faulty tire scandal in 2000, automakers continue to try and cut corners in its design features, which poses a danger to unsuspecting drivers and passengers. Despite years of highly-publicized questions over faulty and neglectful car and tire manufacturing and their direct links to the injuries...

• 56,000 California Kids May Lose Health Coverage

  Brian Foley | November 27, 2007 8:22 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Instead of presents, Santa Claus might deliver a note to more than 56,000 families in California that will inform them that their children will no longer have health insurance by the end of the year. This is not because these children were on Santa's naughty list. It's because of dangerous Washington politics. California risks losing federal funds to support its children health insurance...

• SUV Rollover Fatalities Still Frequent

  Brian Foley | November 25, 2007 2:00 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Despite what the car industry aficionados and government may claim, SUV rollovers continue to kill and maim. Take, for example, the single-vehicle SUV rollover crash last month that killed a 23-year-old man in Southern California . In another example in a case I am handling, three people were killed on July 5, 2006 in Menlo Park, Ca when the driver's 1998 Ford Explorer rolled over and killed...

• Update: Anticipated settlement with Ford delayed

  Brian Foley | November 19, 2007 2:03 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The anticipated settlement of a multi-billion suit against Ford was delayed Monday in Sacramento Superior Court for unspecified reasons. A courthouse spokeswoman said she was awaiting word when the case would resume. One of the lawyers involved in the litigation said they would return on Dec. 3, according to the Sacramento Bee. Meanwhile, authorities are picking up the pieces of a tragic...

• Ford Explorer, SUV victims fight back, see results

  Brian Foley | November 19, 2007 9:30 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Today, November 19, 2007, an expected class action settlement concerning Ford Motor Co. may impact 1 million Ford Explorer owners nationwide. SUVs, passenger vans and trucks kill 10,000 people and injure another 27,000 every year. Among them, the Ford Explorer in particular is a disaster waiting to happen for millions of Americans who drive them.Between their flawed design that makes them...

• Silicon Valley Insures 98% of its Children - Why Not All U.S. Children?

  Dick Alexander | November 01, 2007 8:28 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The wealthiest country in the world fails to fund basic health care for more than 6 million children. The $35 billion bill for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, with its bi-partisan Congressional support, would have covered some 4 million more uninsured children nationwide and an estimated 600,000 California kids, according to media reports. This should not be a debate about...