Why Dealers Brush Off Defective Vehicles
General Motors has just announced the recall of over 2 million defective vehicles, cutting a wide swath across their 2009 production line. Close to 277,000 brands under Buick, GMC, Pontiac and Saturn are being recalled for a faulty gear shift mechanism that may not engage the transmission’s “park” setting. This could cause the vehicle to......
Read MoreUntil Auto Makers are Honest, Lemon Law will be Crucial
A class-action suit is currently being levied in Pennsylvania against auto manufacturer Kia, representing more than 10,000 consumers over faulty brake systems in the Kia Sephia model. The suit contends that Kia breached its express warranty stating that Sephia would be free of manufacturing defects during the warranty period. Similar suits over the same defect......
Read MoreIf You’re Driving a Lemon, Get Your Own
When software company COO Don Simons heads out on the track with his Radical formula-one type racecar, the last thing he’s worried about is if he’s driving a lemon. Such vehicles are the most pampered in the world—and Simons’ skill combined with the precision power of his car has roared him around for a first-place......
Read MoreYour Rights, Warranty or No Warranty
It is evident that lemon laws are needed worse than ever. Following in the footsteps of many other states, Oklahoma is now pushing through legislation to expand their current lemon law. Under the proposed legislation, a consumer who bought a defective vehicle would have the option of a refund or a replacement vehicle of a......
Read MoreThe Crucial Need for Lemon Law Enforcement
Some 40 years after the enactment of the original lemon laws, their need is still being aptly demonstrated. An Ogden, Utah car dealer was recently charged with fraud and forgery after allegedly foisting off a truck on an unsuspecting customer that was actually a “manufacturer’s buyback.” That meant that the vehicle was defective enough that......
Read MoreIntellectual Capital and the Lemon Law
According to SearchCRM.Com this is the definition of Intellectual Capital: Intellectual capital is knowledge that can be exploited for some moneymaking or other useful purpose. The term combines the idea of the intellect or brainpower with the economic concept of capital, the saving of entitled benefits so that they can be invested in producing more......
Read MoreAre You in the Market for a Certified Car?
Getting halves of two cars was not what Paulette Day expected when she bought a red 2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that year from a dealership near Detroit for $22,000. The car was used, but it was a “G.M. certified” car, meaning it had supposedly passed a rigorous inspection by the dealer. As General Motors says......
Read MoreNorman Taylor & The Lemon Law vs. Goliath(s)
For 22 years, Norman Taylor has been fighting the good fight. The battle is typically the same against corporate goliaths like Ford, GMC, Mercedes, Fleetwood and Toyota; his firms have fought over 6,000 Lemon Law battles. They have won in excess of $120,000,000 dollars in prize money, money that was returned to individuals who would......
Read MoreNorman Taylor & Associates Wins Legal Dispute Against Korean Car Maker
In Rolfs vs. Kia Motors America & Hi Desert Kia, a dealership, San Bernadino County, Victorville Court, Case # VCVVS 041487, Stephanie Tatar, trial attorney with Norman Taylor & Associates, a well-known California Lemon Law firm, took on the Korean Auto manufacturing giant and won. It was one of those rare occasions when the jury......
Read MoreThe ‘Ultimate Driving Machine’, Is it Really Safe?
Here is a serious question. “Can clever promotion and flashy advertisements overcome an automobile manufacturer’s inability produce and then maintain a persistently defective automobile?” The answer; for a while, perhaps, but the dwindling spiral of shoddy workmanship, cynical customer service and deceptive repair practices will in the end, destroy the manufacturer’s credibility and the public’s......
Read MoreSuperior Court Judge Upholds Largest “Lemon Law” Jury Verdict in California
On February 7, 1992, Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Patrick McMahon upheld an October jury verdict of $182,096.11 to Mr. Pierre P. Forest of Beverly Hills. The jury had found that BMW of North America willfully violated California’s ‘lemon law’ by refusing to refund to the plaintiff his vehicle purchase price, according to Mr.......
Read MoreNorman Taylor & Associates Advise the State on Standards for Lemon Law Jury Instructions
As the acknowledged experts in the area of Lemon Law, Norman Taylor & Associates was recently asked to provide assistance to the Judicial Council Task Force on Jury Instructions. Jury instructions have remained virtually unchanged since the 1930’s until recently. The pattern civil instructions, (currently known as BAJI, Book of Approved Jury Instructions) are being......
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