Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday ended an era of litigation over its rollover-plagued Explorer sport utility vehicles when it agreed to settle a class action covering about 1 million plaintiffs in California, Connecticut, Illinois and Texas who claimed their Explorers were prone to flip, according to a co-counsel for the SUV owners. A Ford spokeswoman said the deal ends all the outstanding rollover-related lawsuits against the company.
November 29, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday ended an era of litigation over its rollover-plagued Explorer sport utility vehicles when it agreed to settle a class action lawsuit covering plaintiffs in four states.
The settlement applies to about 1 million people in California, Connecticut, Illinois and Texas who claimed their Explorers were prone to flip, said Kevin P. Roddy, a New Jersey attorney and co-counsel for the SUV owners who brought the lawsuit.
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