Report: Toyota to pay out $10M in Lexus runaway lawsuit
 

<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/government-legal/" rel="tag">Government/Legal</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/recalls-tsbs/" rel="tag">Recalls</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/safety/" rel="tag">Safety</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/lexus/" rel="tag">Lexus</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag">Toyota</a></p><a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20101223/BUSINESS0104/101223042/1014/rss13"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" class="right border" alt="Toyota Settlement" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/12/toyota-250-1293191532.jpg" /></a>According to <em>The Detroit Free Press</em>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/toyota">Toyota</a> has agreed to settle the case in which four people died in a runaway <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/lexus">Lexus</a> to the tune of $10 million. The crash, which occurred in August 2009, killed an off-duty police officer, his wife, brother-in-law and daughter and set off a torrent of recalls and investigations into just how long the Japanese automaker had known about unintended acceleration issues. In this case, the accelerator was trapped by the wrong-sized floor mat, but Toyota would later recall vehicles not only with similar issues, but with pedals that could stick as well. <br />
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Originally, both Toyota and the plaintiffs wanted to have the results of the settlement sealed, though Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr decided that the public had a right to know the details of the case, and that right outweighed arguments from both sides. As with the two civil penalties that Toyota has paid to the federal government for failing to notify safety officials of the problems in a timely manner, Toyota has not admitted any wrong doing by settling the case.<br />
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[Source: <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20101223/BUSINESS0104/101223042/1014/rss13">The Detroit Free Press</a>]<p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/24/report-toyota-to-pay-out-10m-in-lexus-runaway-lawsuit/">Report: Toyota to pay out $10M in Lexus runaway lawsuit</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:28:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.freep.com/article/20101223/BUSINESS0104/101223042/1014/rss13>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/24/report-toyota-to-pay-out-10m-in-lexus-runaway-lawsuit/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19776285/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/24/report-toyota-to-pay-out-10m-in-lexus-runaway-lawsuit/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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