{"id":5759,"date":"2014-03-19T09:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T13:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2014-03-20T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T01:58:23","slug":"toyota-unintended-acceleration-settlement-reached-with-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5759","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Unintended Acceleration Settlement Reached With DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"326\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" id=\"\" title=\"NYTimes Video\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/bcvideo\/1.0\/iframe\/embed.html?videoId=100000002777131&#038;playerType=embed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Toyota have come to  a $1.2 billion settlement agreement that will end a four year investigation into the inadvertent acceleration of certain Toyota vehicles.  During a new conference on Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder criticized the automobile manufacturer for misleading consumers through statements regarding the two issues that caused sudden acceleration in certain models.<!--more-->  The NHTSA has already fined the company on four separate occasions for a combined total of $66.2 million for failing to promptly disclose defects, plus about $1.6 billion in damages to car owners bringing law suits claiming the vehicles were defective and lost their value.<\/p>\n<p>This deal, one of the largest penalties ever imposed on a car manufacturer by the government, also includes independent monitoring of Toyota\u2019s safety practices and deferred prosecution for three years on a wire fraud charge<br \/>\nAccording to Christopher P. Reynolds, Toyota North America\u2019s chief legal officer, \u201cEntering this agreement is a major step toward putting this unfortunate chapter behind us.  Toyota has already made changes to become a more responsive company, as we continually work to enhancing quality control and creating rapid response teams to quickly investigate customer concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Toyota have come to a $1.2 billion settlement agreement that will end a four year investigation into the inadvertent acceleration of certain Toyota vehicles. During a new conference on Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder criticized the automobile manufacturer for misleading consumers through statements regarding the two issues that&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5759\">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":[1,10,50,928],"tags":[5,906,1161,1625,791],"class_list":["post-5759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-california-lemon-law","category-toyota","category-video","tag-auto-industry","tag-automobile-investigation","tag-repeated-automobile-problems","tag-toyota","tag-unintended-acceleration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759","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=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}