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Navistar Agrees to Pay $159M to Settle Lawsuits Against MaxxForce Engines

Class members can opt for a “no questions asked” payment of $2,500 per truck purchased, said attorney Jonathan Selbin, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the case. The fallout from the MaxxForce line also led to several years of multi-billion dollar losses for Navistar. In an 8-K form filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Navistar notified shareholders of the pending …


Lawsuit Filed Over Deadly Southwest Airlines Flight

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque couple has joined at least eight other passengers in filing a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines over a deadly flight. The Santa Fe New Mexican identifies the couple as Kevin and Andrea Nelson. The suit is in response to the April 2018 flight when a failed engine shattered a plane’s window mid-flight, killing Albuquerque resident Jennifer Riordan. The …


Bosch, a Volkswagen Supplier, Agrees to Settle Over Diesel Scandal

Bosch said Wednesday it would “continue to defend its interests in all other civil and criminal law proceedings and to cooperate comprehensively with the investigating authorities in Germany and in other countries.” Volkswagen held powerful sway over Bosch, based on the accounts in the lawsuits. The carmaker was one of Bosch’s biggest customers, with a relationship dating from the early days of …


Some Subaru Owners to Get New Engines in Class-Action Settlement

Subaru agreed to put a new engine in some vehicles that customers said had oil- burning issues, according to the terms of a class-action lawsuit settlement approved this week. The class-action suit said the Cherry Hill-based automaker was “unresponsive” to customer complaints and set “an unreasonably high threshold” to test oil consumption. It’s not known how many of the 650,000 Crosstrek, …




Caterpillar Reaches Class-Action Settlement Over Alleged Engine Defects, ACERT Owners to Get Payments

Anyone who had six or more CRS-related repairs done to a Caterpillar ACERT engine is eligible for $10,000. A settlement has been reached in the class-action lawsuit that alleged Caterpillar’s 2007-2010 year model ACERT C13 and C15 engines were defective, driving up costs for owners and driving down resale value. Cat’s ACERT engines were introduced as the company’s alternative to exhaust-gas …