Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Bloomberg reports on cover-up problems with the Takata airbag scandal. One tragic case illustrates the life and death importance to crash victims.
“Mincey Lawsuit
In one instance, Takata’s manipulation of air-bag inflator test results in 2000 emerged last year as part of a lawsuit against the company on behalf of Patricia Mincey, a Florida woman who became a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic following a low-speed collision in her 2001 Honda Civic. Honda recalled the vehicle four days after the incident in June 2014. Mincey died earlier this year.
Before Takata agreed to settle the Mincey lawsuit last week, several current and former engineers said in depositions that the company also altered and misrepresented test data in reports to Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co. and General Motors Co.
Brian Mayville, a Takata engineering manager, said during a deposition taken in November that select reports were not properly represented to Toyota and GM.”
See http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2016/07/19/420381.htm
