{"id":2709,"date":"2011-12-19T10:59:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2014-05-26T17:14:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T21:14:44","slug":"federal-bill-increases-recall-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=2709","title":{"rendered":"Federal Bill Increases Recall Fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Automobile manufacturers, dealers, rental companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have lost their fight against a federal bill that will significantly increase automaker fines for companies who delay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=2076\">automobile recalls<\/a>.  Currently, the maximum fine is just over $17 million, but once the bill  goes into effect, the fines could go as high as $200 million.   According to groups opposing the bill, &#8220;The increases are completely out of proportion to the current penalty structure for manufacturers under the Consumer Product Safety Act.&#8221;  The bill was introduced in response to unintended acceleration recalls by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/lemon-law-article24\/\">Toyota<\/a> in 2009-2010.  Even though Toyota vehicles were cleared of electronic flaws causing unintended acceleration, the company ended up paying maximum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=995\">fines for  recall delays<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Other provisions of the bill include an increase in the maximum fine for odometer fraud; new regulations for vehicle pedal placement and push-button ignition; an improved recall database and website; and an anonymous complaint hot line for auto workers, dealers and mechanics to report vehicle safety problems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automobile manufacturers, dealers, rental companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have lost their fight against a federal bill that will significantly increase automaker fines for companies who delay automobile recalls. Currently, the maximum fine is just over $17 million, but once the bill goes into effect, the fines could go as high as $200&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=2709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1620,805,1629,201],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-california-lemon-law","tag-lemon","tag-nhtsa","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}