News about personal injury lawsuits concerning Yamaha Rhino off-road vehicle (ORV) rollover accidents has people thinking about a number of related safety issues, including state laws that allow children to operate ORVs.
If you have a Yamaha Rhino, you need to know more about the problems associated with Yamaha Rhino accidents. Learn more about the Yamaha Rhino Rollover problem.
Two single-engine Cessnas containing a total of six people collided in midair Wednesday over Colorado, but all people aboard the planes survived and no injuries were reported.
According to statistics, product liability lawsuits generate the second highest verdict and settlement amounts among all areas of personal injury law. The high-profile settlements featured on this page demonstrate the potential for obtaining compensation when filing a product liability lawsuit.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has named the 2009 Subaru Forester as the Top Safety Pick for 2008.
Yamaha began a massive recall Monday on what many have considered one of the most dangerous ATVs on the market after concerns of brake failure surfaced from tests by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
In a ruling Monday, a California mother of two was allowed to keep an $82.6 million jury award given to her for injuries she suffered in a rollover accident in her Ford Explorer SUV.
The insurance industry is calling on federal auto-safety regulators to change SUV roof-crush standards after a new study Wednesday showed the change could save the lives of hundreds of rollover crash victims each year.
A Staten Island family is suing Ford Motor Company for a crash that killed a Boy Scout leader and his 9-year-old grandson, an accident the family's lawyer said could have been prevented with a few safety-boosting devices.
A recent NHSTA study concludes that the effectiveness of the LATCH child restraint system is being undermined because parents either do not know about the system, or do not understand how to use it properly.
Much like airplanes are equipped with black boxes, most new model cars come factory equipped with Event Data Recorders (EDRs), technology that can actually allow your car to testify against you in court.
On a December afternoon in Texas on Highway 114, Kim Hughes and her family were on their way home from shopping for Christmas presents when their SUV collided with the 18-wheel truck of illegal immigrant Ricardo Rodriguez.
The new Ford S-Max has attained a five star rating by the Euro NCAP crash test protocol. With the S-Max and Focus vehicle models, Ford has produced two automobiles that have achieved the maximum rating available in Euro NCAP.
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- The family of a Vermont teenager killed in a high-speed crash last year is considering a wrongful death lawsuit that would blame her death on a defective seat belt.
The day after a Texas civil trial in the case began, Ford Motor Co. agreed last week to settle a wrongful death suit with the families of two teens killed in a 2002 Ford Explorer rollover,
A Texas family was awarded $30.4 million by a Brownsville jury in their wrongful death suit against Ford Motor Co. for the death of their teen-aged daughter in the crash of the family's pickup.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has given poor marks to the head restraints on seven minivan models, saying they offer inadequate protection in a crash. Three minivan manufactures have questioned the ratings.
In the wake of a large-scale recall of more than 4 million trucks and SUVs, Ford is facing product liability and negligence claims over it's Mustang model sports car.
The mother of a 14-year-old boy seriously injured in a May 2003 school bus crash that also killed his sister has filed a lawsuit on behalf of her son.
The father of a man who died as the result of burns suffered when his Ford F-150 crashed and caught fire in February 2003 is suing Ford Motor Company and a Fayetteville, Ark., car dealership.
A Missouri judge ruled Friday that the designers or manufacturers of parts used on a school bus involved in a fatal May crash in Liberty can be sued by the families of crash victims.
A man whose wife was killed in a 2004 SUV rollover accident filed suit this week in Kentucky against Ford Motor Company and Avery Dennison Corporation, makers of a highway reflector that punctured the vehicle's tire.
A Madison, Wisconsin, woman seeking $1.5 million from the Ford Motor Company for injuries suffered when a rented 2000 Explorer she was driving rolled over received a $10,800 award this week from a federal jury.
Ford Motor Company is being sued this week by the family of two people killed when the 1997 Ford Explorer they were driving rolled over on the highway near Barstow.
On July, 7, 2005, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that Volkswagen, Ford, and Toyota would be recalling vehicles with defects that pose a hazard to consumers.
A Florida woman whose husband was killed in the July 2001 crash of a van modified for use by a handicapped driver has reached a settlement with Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., and several businesses in her town.
A New York appellate panel this week order a $5.2 million dollar wrongful death award held in abeyance until the New York Supreme Court rules on the admissibility of test evidence.
The father of a Texas woman killed in an alleged alcohol-related fatal car crash filed a wrongful death suit this week against the man charged with causing the crash.
TRENTON, New Jersey - Appeals court judges reinstated three car crash injury lawsuits Monday, based on last month's state Supreme Court ruling that a person's permanent injuries do not to also be serious to qualify for awards.
Two Virginia women have filed lawsuits against the city of Lynchburg and a police department captain, claiming the officer's negligent driving caused them permanent injury.
A physician's group filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Minnesota woman, claiming that Merck inappropriately used results from animal studies to counter evidence that Vioxx was harmful to humans.
A Kansas City, Kansas, man is suing the United Government of that city and Wyandotte County for violating his constitutional rights, after being run over by an undercover policeman last October.
According to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the most frequent cause of death in the hospital among Americans 44 years and younger is traumatic brain injury.
A Liberty, Kansas school bus crash has left 9 year-old Renna Yi with life threatening head and spinal cord injuries, and injured many others. Her family filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming that the bus had break problems, no seat belts, as well as large sections of exposed, unpadded metal.
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