Unintended or sudden acceleration problems have been around for years. From the beginning, car manufacturers have always wanted to blame the driver. As long ago as the late 1980"s, manufacturers reported that "Startled and confused drivers hit the wrong pedal.”
It’s no real surprise, then, that Toyota blames “driver error” for the recent
Event Data Recorders (EDRs) have been in cars since at least 1997. They are similar to the“black box” found on airplanes. The EDR in a vehicle is usually part of the vehicle restraint system and records information generally related to accidents. Some EDRs continuously record data and others are activated by crash-like events.
Manufacturers
Governor Schwarzenegger has signed a bill into law that will allow adults who serve alcohol to minors to be held accountable for their actions. Under the new law, adults who serve alcohol to those under the legal drinking age of 21 can be sued for any injuries or death that result from the intoxication. Surprisingly, before the law was passed, adults who
Assuming that car rental agencies provide safe and well-maintained vehicles, drivers often choose to rent a car for a long road trip rather than put the miles on their own car. Renters trust the rental agency to provide safe vehicles because that’s their business. That’s the service customers are paying for in daily rates. Apparently
Serving alcohol to minors is illegal. But strangely parents do it or permit it to happen in their home. Stranger still, the law doesn’t allow civil recourse against the parent when a teen is killed or injured as a result of the alcohol the parent served. That may soon change.
The Consumer Attorneys of California
There’s no longer any debate. Tires older than six years should be discarded and replaced, even if they otherwise appear to be in good condition with plenty of tread. In fact, they should be tossed out even if they’ve n
ever been used. That’s because tires older than six years are prone to "detreading." Detreading
California’s "financial responsibility" law requires that all motorists carry a minimum level of liability insurance in case they cause an accident. That includes an accident that hurts a cyclist. The problem is that the minimum coverage ($15,000) is enough to 
cover minor injuries only. If any hospital stay is involved, the minimum coverage is unlikely to be
Spinal cord injuries can result from a spectrum of causes: compression of the space around a disk, fractures of a vertebra (cervical, thoracic or lumbar), or a disk "blown" or crushed by a fall. The spinal cord can be injured or severed by a gunshot or by a knife wound. But
the leading cause of
Proposition 213 became law in 1996. That law says that an uninsured driver who is injured in an auto accident may not recover certain damages due her, even though the accident was entirely the fault of the other driver. The damages the innocent driver is prohibited from collecting are her non-economic damages, which include pain
