The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s $16.4 million civil penalty against Toyota could bolster legal claims that the automaker committed consumer fraud and racketeering. It also could assist plaintiffs attorneys in obtaining thousands of documents for use in their cases, according to plaintiffs lawyers and legal experts.
“Factually, it validates the legitimacy of our allegations that Toyota has been misleading the federal government and consumers, as far as the severity of the problems with their sticky pedals and their whole electronic throttle control system,” said Tim Howard, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, who is leading a consortium of more than two dozen plaintiffs lawyers with suits against Toyota.
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