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Lieff Cabraser attorneys Robert J. Nelson and Scott Nealey discuss a wrongful death lawsuit based on a transmission defect in millions of Chrysler vehicles.

Vehicle Safety News

August 9, 2007

St. Petersburg Times, "Local officials have seen the damage faulty Ford cruise control switches can do"

Pasco County fire investigator Don Campbell started noticing the problem about two years ago. The engines inside Ford sport utility vehicles and F-150 pickup trucks would mysteriously catch fire and burn, nearly always when the vehicle was parked and hadn't been driven in several hours. Campbell instantly made a connection. In January, 2005, Ford Motor Co. had begun a recall of nearly 6-million cars, trucks, SUVs and vans because of engine fires linked to faulty cruise-control switches.

Ford expanded that recall Friday, when the automaker said 3.6-million vehicles need to be checked to address the same cruise-control problem. The recall covers more than a dozen Ford models built from 1992 to 2004. That Ford issued a second recall was no surprise to Campbell. Because the number of fires has been mounting. "It's a staggering number now," Campbell said Tuesday, referring to Ford vehicle fires his office has investigated. "It probably averages about one a week in Pasco County."

Learn more about Ford cruise control switch fires and the rights of victims of Ford vehicle fires.

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In 2007, in Mraz v. DaimlerChrysler, Lieff Cabraser attorneys, with local co-counsel, obtained the fourth-largest verdict in California for the year. At trial, plaintiffs showed that a defective transmission was responsible for making a Dodge Dakota pickup shift into reverse and run over Richard Mraz.

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