Lawyers

• Feds Believe Takata Airbag Inflator Recall May Grow Up to 90 Million More

  Authorities are studying whether or not they need to recall up to 90 million vehicles with a defective Takata airbag inflator installed.

• Daimler Recalls 840,000 Vehicles With Faulty Takata Airbag Inflators

  Daimler is recalling 840,000 vehicles with defective airbag inflators all over the U.S. The company is shouldering $383.96 million to cover for the repair expenses.

• Fiat Chrysler to pay $70 million auto safety fine

  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCHA.MI) (FCAU.N) has agreed to pay $70 million in fines to resolve a U.S. investigation that it failed to disclose vehicle crash death and injury reports, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

• U.S. regulators invite applications from would-be Takata monitors

  U.S. auto safety regulators on Monday invited outside companies and individuals to apply for the job of independent monitor for the massive recall of Takata Corp air bag inflators.

• U.S. regulator says Fiat Chrysler misled agency on Takata recalls

  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV misled U.S. auto safety regulators about recall notifications to the owners of vehicles equipped with defective Takata Corp air bags, a U.S. safety recall analysts said on Thursday.

• Takata air bag on Honda Civic linked to another injury

  Faulty air bags supplied by Takata Corp have been linked to another injury involving a Honda Motor Co car in Florida in March.

• Honda hires U.S. engineering firm Exponent to probe Takata air bags

  Honda Motor Co has hired Exponent, a U.S.-based engineering consulting company enlisted by Toyota Motor Corp during its recall crisis in 2010, to investigate the cause of ruptures in some air bags made by Takata Corp.

• U.S. judge taps lead lawyers for Takata air bag cases

  Four plaintiffs’ lawyers, including high-profile attorney David Boies, were appointed by a federal judge on Tuesday to lead civil litigation against Takata Corp and several car manufacturers for injuries caused by allegedly faulty air bags.

• Takata hit with daily fine on air bag probe as repairs lag

  U.S. regulators on Friday slapped Takata Corp with a $14,000 per-day fine for failing to fully cooperate with a probe of its faulty air bags and revealed that a fraction of the 17 million cars recalled because of the problems have been repaired.

• Six experts to join Samuel Skinner on Takata quality panel

  Six transportation safety and quality experts will form Takata Corp's independent quality assurance panel, said Samuel Skinner, former secretary of transportation and White House chief of staff.

• Japan regulator to weigh possible law revisions in wake of Takata recalls

  Japanese Transport Minister Akihiro Ohta said on Friday his ministry was considering whether to revise existing laws to beef up oversight of auto parts suppliers in the wake of massive recalls of auto parts maker Takata Corp's air bags.

• Takata CEO called to explain air bag crisis to Japan's industry ministry

  Japan's powerful industry ministry has summoned Shigehisa Takada, chairman and CEO of Takata Corp, to explain what the company is doing to resolve a crisis over potentially deadly air bags, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

• Takata to comply with U.S. order to expand regional recall

  Takata Corp (7312.T) is preparing to comply with a U.S. order to expand a region-specific recall nationwide, the Nikkei said on Tuesday, a move that's likely to add millions more to the tally of cars called back to replace potentially deadly air bags.

• Takata retains prominent lawyer Levander in air bag scandal

  Takata Corp said on Tuesday it has hired Andrew Levander, a prominent New York defense lawyer, to oversee legal matters including a criminal probe stemming from a growing scandal about its defective air bags.

• Takata executives ordered technicians to erase air bag test results: report

  Takata Corp, the Japanese auto parts maker at the center of a global vehicle recall, ordered its technicians to destroy results of tests on some of its air bags after finding cracks in air bag inflators, the New York Times said on Friday.

• U.S. regulator to Takata: Give us faulty air-bag documents

  U.S. auto safety regulators on Thursday ordered Japanese supplier Takata Corp (7312.T) to provide documents and answer questions under oath related to the government's ongoing probe of potentially defective Takata air bags in millions of U.S. vehicles.

• Honda executives to take pay cut after fifth Fit hybrid recall

  Honda Motor Co (7267.T) said on Thursday its president and 12 other executives would take an unprecedented pay cut after the Japanese automaker announced the fifth recall in a year of its new Fit model.

• U.S. regulator expands warning over Takata air bags, more lawsuits filed

  The problems for Japanese auto parts maker Takata Corp (7312.T) grew after U.S. safety regulators expanded a warning about faulty air bags to 6.1 million vehicles in the United States while two more lawsuits have been filed over accidents in older Honda cars.

• Toyota recalls 247,000 vehicles in U.S. over Takata air bag issue

  Toyota Motor Corp recalled 247,000 cars, SUVs and pickup trucks in the United States on Monday because they are equipped with potentially defective front passenger air bag inflators from Japan's Takata Corp that can rupture and spray metal shrapnel, according to U.S. safety regulators.