Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2009 WASHINGTON D.C. – At least a year past a Congressional deadline and several years behind its own schedule, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has proposed a new ejection-mitigation standard that would compel automakers to improve their side airbag designs to fully cover up [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 3, June / July 2009 LOS ANGELES, CA – A Superior Court judge has dismissed Jaguar Land Rover’s claim that the paralyzing injuries sustained by a Simi Valley man were caused by his diving into the roof during a rollover, and awarded him $21.1 million in damages.

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 Juries in Georgia, Colorado and Texas recently delivered verdicts worth more than $46 million against Ford Motor Company and Nissan in three different defect cases. Ford lost in two separate cases involving an Explorer transmission defect and a seat-belt unlatch incident involving a Mercury [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 1, January/February 2009 ATLANTA, GA – After a three-year effort involving the automotive industry, trauma specialists, NHTSA and other federal agencies, the Centers for Disease Control last month issued its first national triage guidelines – and dropped rollover from the criteria of automatic transport to a Level [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 1, January/February 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s effort to write a new roof strength standard drags into its fourth year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has gone ahead and created one that is far more stringent than anything the agency [...]