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The 1978 Ford Pinto is shown in this company handout photo. This subcompact became a hot seller for Ford after its introduction in 1970. The Pinto's 10-year run was marred by litigation over the.
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With an NHTSA public hearing scheduled, Ford recalled the 1971-1976 Pintos to upgrade fuel system integrity. The improvements to the 1977 and subsequent model-year Pintos and the recall of the earlier ones should have solved Ford's Pinto fuel system problems.
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THE IM PACT OF PUBLICITY ON CORPORATE OFFENDERS 245 12 factured between 1971 and 1976.2 Moreover, these evems aroused The Impact of Publicity on Corporate product liability actions against Ford, most notably the Grim- shaw3 suit in which damages of $128.5 million were awarded, Offenders: Ford Motor Company including a record $125 million in punitive damages (later re- and the Pinto Papers.
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The Pinto, a subcompact car made by Ford Motor Company, became infamous in the 1970s for bursting into flames if its gas tank was ruptured in a collision. The lawsuits brought by injured people and their survivors uncovered how the company rushed the Pinto through production and onto the market.
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The Pinto was born with instructions from Iacocca that it be limited to 2,000 pounds in weight and be manufactured and sold for no more than $2,000 per car. And it was a hit when first released. Sadly - it also quickly became infamous. It burst into flames if struck from behind by another vehicle. Thankfully, those injured by Ford's.
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Blog Then vs. Now: How The Ford Pinto Case Changed The Legal Landscape Posted on June 29th, 2023 In the 1970s, a landmark case involving the Ford Pinto sent shockwaves through the automotive industry and forever changed the legal landscape for personal injury law.
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The lawsuit involved the safety of the design of the Ford Pinto automobile, manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. The jury awarded plaintiffs $127.8 million in damages, the largest ever in US product liability and personal injury cases. Grimshaw v.
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The Ford Pinto case - which exposed Ford executives for calculating that hurting and killing people with defective cars would cost less than fixing the defect - springs to mind. Legal costs properly consist of legal fees and expenses of litigation. They do not include damages, actual or punitive. The WSJ should know better. Posted in Uncategorized
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The Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company lawsuit was filed as a personal injury tort case in Orange County, California. The lawsuit was filed in 1978 by attorneys for the plaintiff involving the Ford Pinto automobile's safety design. Lily gray was driving a 1972 Ford Pinto when it was rear-ended.
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By 1977, an article written by Mother Jones called out Ford for being complacent with the issues of rear end accidents leading to fires. Media attention grew, and forced the hand of the NHTSA to investigate the issue and produce findings that furthered the fiasco - by showing that the Pinto was prone to fires. In 1978, Ford received about 117 lawsuits involving rear end collisions.
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The Ford Pinto is a subcompact car that was manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company in North America from 1971 until 1980. The Pinto was the first subcompact vehicle produced by Ford in North America.
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"The Pinto Memo," which contains these dirty numbers, was allegedly circulated among Ford's senior management in 1968, two years before the Pinto hit the streets and caused a number of.
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Tara Boyle , Rhaina Cohen , Parth Shah 54-Minute Listen Playlist Enlarge this image Patty Ramge leans against her Ford Pinto in 1978. Since then, the car has become one of the most infamous.
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The Ford Pinto Criminal Trial (1980) Ford Motor Company became the first American corporation to be criminally prosecuted when it was charged with reckless homicide. Three girls died in a fire after their Ford Pinto was struck in the rear and burst into flames; their families claimed that the fire was attributable to the Pinto's faulty fuel.
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What explains Ford's decision? The evidence suggests that Ford relied, at least in part, on cost-benefit reasoning, which is an analysis in monetary terms of the expected costs and benefits of doing something. There were various ways of making the Pinto's gas tank safer.
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The Pinto, as car buffs of a certain vintage know, was made by Ford through most of the 1970s, sold as a sedan or "Runabout" hatchback. The affordable subcompact was meant to compete with smaller.