The next time you find yourself driving near a Tesla, give a wide berth to the amazing car of the future. It is still very much of the present. A Davie lawyer, frustrated and alarmed by an autopilot with a mind of its own on his new $108,000 Tesla, is one of the lead plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against the automaker claiming he was one of 50,000 customers who was sold a “dangerously …
A wrongful death lawsuit seeking at least $1 million in damages has been filed by the son of one of the 13 victims killed March 29 in a fatal head-on collision near Garner State Park. It is the first legal action filed by family members in the wake of the tragedy involving members of the First Baptist Church in New Braunfels who were leaving a retreat in Leakey. Attorney …
Woodmore victim profiles A twelfth civil lawsuit has been filed in Circuit Court in connection with the deadly Woodmore Elementary bus crash that killed six children in November. The most recent lawsuit was filed on Tuesday on behalf of Diamond Brown, the mother of 6-year-old D’Myunn Lamar Brown, and claims she “is the only proper party to bring this cause of action for the wrongful death” of …
Cedar Rapids-based CRST trucking company is facing a $350 million lawsuit in California for a crash in 2014 involving one of its drivers. The lawsuit claims Hector Contreras, a driver for CRST, in July 2014 crossed the center line on California state route 14 and hit another car head-on, seriously injuring Matthew and Michael Lennig. The lawsuit claims both …
Apple could face a potential class action lawsuit in California for not using its technology to prevent iPhone users from texting while driving. Apparently since no one can put their phones down when they’re driving, it’s on Apple to make them. Filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the complaint alleges that Apple, though having the ability to fit the iPhone with a lock-out …
Texting and driving is illegal in forty-six states and territories. While most people would argue that the person texting and driving is ultimately responsible for their dangerous actions, one court case argues that cellphone companies are also at fault. California resident Julio Ceja has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple , claiming …
A 24-year-old woman who says she was stopped by Portland police, ordered out of her car at gunpoint and briefly handcuffed under the mistaken belief that she was driving a stolen car has filed a $49,000 lawsuit against the city. Officers used a spike strip to flatten the tires of her 1999 Honda Civic and had her back out of her car with her hands up before they realized their blunder: The …
A Georgia family is suing popular social-media app Snapchat, saying a feature on the app contributed to a crash by encouraging a teen driver to use it while driving faster than 100 miles per hour. Wentworth Maynard was pulling onto Tara Boulevard in Clayton County in September when he was rear-ended by 18-year-old Christal McGee. McGee and her three passengers suffered various injuries, but …
Hephzibah Dollar started driving with Uber to make a living and find a home for her two boys. She didn’t have a place to live at the time. So she put her possessions in storage, leased an SUV from Uber’s partner Santander, then drove it all day long until she had to pick up her boys.