Posts in Auto Defects

More than nineteen years after the last tire was produced, Goodyear tire has agreed to recall more than 173,000 G159 recreational vehicle tires fitted for Class A motorhomes due to heightened risks of tread separation. According to lawsuits filed against Goodyear, the G159 tire was designed for regional delivery trucks and not for extended highway…

ARC Automotive Inc. specializes in the design and manufacture of airbag inflators for the automotive industry. ARC is facing several lawsuits alleging that defective airbag inflators are rupturing during deployment and causing serious injuries and death. If you or a loved one were injured by an airbag that you believe may have been defective, it…

McLENNAN COUNTY, Texas – The product liability lawyers at The Ammons Law Firm filed a lawsuit against FCA US LLC (FCA) on behalf of a woman who suffered severe injuries when the 2015 Dodge Journey van she was driving was involved in a catastrophic head-on collision. The lawsuit alleges that despite the severity of the…

Attorney John Gsanger of The Ammons Law Firm has won an appellate victory for the family of a New Mexico Man who was killed in a single-vehicle rollover accident in Texas. The case arises from a 2015 single-vehicle rollover accident, which occurred while the decedent returned home with his brother to New Mexico from Texas…

EL PASO, Texas – The Ammons Law Firm has filed a lawsuit against Omni United Pte. Ltd. on behalf of a family who lost three adults, a minor, and an unborn child in a crash caused by the partial tread separation of the right rear tire on a Ford Transit Van. The crash occurred when…

HIDALGO COUNTY, Texas – The Ammons Law Firm filed suit against Chrysler on behalf of a young man who was seriously injured when the airbag in his 2007 Chrysler 300 exploded during a minor traffic accident. The crash occurred when a car ran a red light, causing a collision with the Chrysler 300 which the…

GRAYSON COUNTY, Texas – The Ammons Law Firm has filed a lawsuit against Cooper Tire Rubber Co. on behalf of three severely injured adults and a family whose four-month-old child was killed after a belt-to-belt tread separation on the left-rear wheel of the family’s vehicle. The tread separation caused the driver to lose control of…

HOUSTON, Texas — The Ammons Law Firm has filed a lawsuit against the Ford Motor Company on behalf of the family of a Nevada man who suffered fatal injuries when his F-250 pick-up truck rolled over and crushed the truck’s roof into the man’s survival space. Filed in the Nevada Division of the U.S. District…

WHARTON COUNTY, Texas — A truck driver tragically died Feb. 17 after an 18-wheeler and tandem trailer truck collided on southbound U.S. 59 and fueled an explosion. Local police said they arrived on the scene to find the vehicles fully engulfed in flames. The driver of the tandem trailer was not hurt, but the 18-wheeler…

UTAH COUNTY, Utah — A male driver tragically died on Feb. 15 in Payson after losing control of the dump truck he was driving northbound on Interstate 15 near mile marker 248. Witnesses told the state highway patrol that the dump truck started traveling erratically after a tire on the vehicle blew out. Loaded with…