August 19, 2021 – Henry “Hank” Didier, managing partner of the Didier Law Firm, P.A., was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022 in the field(s) of personal injury and product liability litigation – plaintiffs. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as…
Source: WRAL.com – January 17, 2018 – By TERRY SPENCER, Associated Press – FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida woman died because a faulty air bag ruptured and fired shrapnel into her head during a crash she should have survived, a report released Wednesday by the state’s Highway Patrol said. Nichol Barker, 34, of Holiday,…
How The Company’s Failures Led To Lethal Products And The Biggest Auto Recall In History. Source: Bloomberg – June 2, 2016 – Carlos Solis was driving a familiar route, the few miles from his home to his brother’s apartment outside Houston, on a Sunday in January last year. His cousin sat beside him, and a…
Source: New York Times / February 3, 2016 In the latest sign that automakers are still struggling to understand the scope of the Takata airbag crisis, Honda Motor said on Wednesday that it would expand its recall by more than a third in North America. The latest action, for 2.23 million vehicles in the United States, reveals…
The Didier Law Firm is serving as co-counsel with Motley Rice on a new product liability action in the District Court for Salt Lake County, Utah on behalf of Randi Johnston of Centerville, Utah. The suit alleges serious, permanent, life-scarring and post-crash personal injuries as a result of the alleged overly volatile explosion of the…
Source: New York Times / November 3, 2015 -In the stiffest civil punishment ever imposed in the auto industry, federal regulators levied a penalty of up to $200 million on Takata, the maker of millions of faulty airbags, for failing to disclose the defect to regulators in a timely manner. Takata is being fined $70…
BMW may be the next auto maker in the sights of U.S. safety regulators. Source: The Associated Press, September 28, 2015 – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it’s investigating the company’s Mini brand because it may have been slow to fix cars that didn’t pass federal crash tests. At issue are just over 30,000…
After an 18-month battle with a safety agency, Recaro agreed to a recall of child safety seats. Source: New York Times, September 20, 2015 – The recall seemed to be straightforward enough: Recaro Child Safety needed to fix some of its car seats so that they would not break free during a crash. But the…
Source: International Business Times, September 22, 2015 – Volkswagen says 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide have software designed to fool emissions testers, including 482,000 vehicles in the United States. In the wake of revelations that Volkswagen deceived regulators and car buyers about the high level of polluting emissions from its diesel-powered vehicles, you have two…
Letters to auto makers including Tesla from U.S. regulators say scope of recalls may expand Faulty Takata air-bag inflaters have been linked to eight deaths world-wide Source: Associated Press, September 28, 2015 – Seven more companies including electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc. could be facing recalls because they use air-bag inflaters made by Takata Corp., according to letters they received…