No, A Lemon Isn’t Your Fault
By Norman Taylor & Associates
March 27, 2009
News
In the current economic climate, it is certainly a “buyer’s market” for automobiles and trucks. If you can qualify for a loan, there are deals to be had. Many dealers are offering “employee pricing” and many other incentives. But even with car dealers eager to make a sale, buyers should beware and understand their rights...read more
Read MoreWhy Dealers Brush Off Defective Vehicles
By Norman Taylor & Associates
March 20, 2009
News, Uncategorized
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 more
Read MoreUntil Auto Makers are Honest, Lemon Law will be Crucial
By Norman Taylor & Associates
March 16, 2009
News
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 more
Read MoreIf You’re Driving a Lemon, Get Your Own
By Norman Taylor & Associates
February 27, 2009
News
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 more
Read MoreYour Rights, Warranty or No Warranty
By Norman Taylor & Associates
February 17, 2009
News
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 more
Read MoreThe Crucial Need for Lemon Law Enforcement
By Norman Taylor & Associates
January 15, 2009
News
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 more
Read More6-Sigma and Lemon Law Cases
By Norman Taylor & Associates
December 22, 2008
News
I am sorry. I cannot answer for your spiritual condition. If you are in bad graces with God, that is your problem. I really don’t know, generally, why it was you and not your neighbor, who may or may not have deserved it more than you. That it would happen to someone, I knew with...read more
Read MoreIntellectual Capital and the Lemon Law
By Norman Taylor & Associates
December 17, 2008
News
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 more
Read MoreAre You in the Market for a Certified Car?
By Norman Taylor & Associates
December 11, 2008
News
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 more
Read MoreLemon Law Attorneys Should Do What’s Best for the Client, Not What’s Easiest
By Norman Taylor & Associates
December 1, 2008
News
Every endeavor has an ideal scene, an ideal outcome. That can’t always be achieved; if it could I would be living in a villa on the Costa del Sol sipping something tall and cool with a lime wedge on the rim. But every excellent law firm should have as its primary goal getting as close...read more
Read MoreNorman Taylor & The Lemon Law vs. Goliath(s)
By Norman Taylor & Associates
October 31, 2008
News
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 more
Read MoreNorman Taylor & Associates Wins Legal Dispute Against Korean Car Maker
By Norman Taylor & Associates
October 22, 2008
News
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 more
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