Last month, Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a safety advisory alerting the owners of 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles to remove the driver's side floor mats in their cars. The mats, Toyota said, could slide forward and interfere with the gas pedal, whose design allowed it to be easily jammed, causing a dangerous Unintended Acceleration situation. The recall is the largest ever for Toyota and the fifth largest recall of a consumer product in the United States.

Last month, Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a safety advisory alerting the owners of 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles to remove the driver's side floor mats in their cars. The mats, Toyota said, could slide forward and interfere with the gas pedal, causing a dangerous unintended acceleration situation. The recall is the largest ever for Toyota and the fifth largest recall of a consumer product in the United States.

Toyota Motor Corp. informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in a letter on Monday that it is formally recalling 3.8 million Toyota vehicles. The recall is an effort to correct the problem of unintended acceleration many drivers of Toyota vehicles have experienced. The car manufacturer suspects that improperly secured and mismatched car mats can interfere with the gas pedal, causing it to jam in full open position. The recall is Toyota's largest recall ever and the sixth largest recall in the U.S., according to the NHTSA.

Toyota has announced it will recall 3.8 million vehicles in the United States as a result of a dangerous problem with the vehicle floor mats, which may interfere with the vehicle's accelerator, causing uncontrolled accleration leading to loss of control of the vehicle and a crash. The NHTSA and Toyota advise that car owners should immediately remove the driver's side floor mat, and should not replace it.

An investigative report by CBS reveals the lengths some big corporations will go to conceal evidence that casts the company and its products in a dubious light. The report features Dimitrios Biller, a former attorney forToyota, who accuses the car manufacturer of withholding and destroying evidence in more than 300 rollover and roof crush lawsuits. Biller alleges Toyota took measures to hide evidence "of its vehicles' structural shortcomings," an effort which he claims amounted to a "ruthless conspiracy."

The excruciating jolt that rings through one's body when his implanted cardiac defibrillator misfires has been compared by one man to "a horse or elephant, kicking you from inside your chest, out." Another man was so consumed with the sheer terror of being electrocuted from the inside from his implanted device that he says he now requires psychiatric care for severe anxiety and post traumatic stress the episodes caused him.Late last week Beasley Allen attorneys filed three more lawsuits among a growing list of complaints against the manufacturer of the defective cardiac defibrillators, Medtronic.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) just announced a major tire recall of over 127,183 Firestone FR380 tires, size P235/75R15. The tires were manufactured from September 9, 2007 through July 2, 2008.  Consumers are being urged to stop using the recalled tires immediately and contact Firestone for a free replacement.

The public outcry over Chrysler and General Motors Corp. declaring bankruptcy and leaving vehicle owners high and dry on liability claims has been loud and intense, but new reports surfacing from GM indicate it has been heard ... to a degree. Product liability had become the albatross around GM's neck as it sought to become a new company with a fresh start, unhindered by personal injury and death claims attached to the very cars it once produced.

They are all different ages and come from a variety of backgrounds, but they share two things in common: they or someone they love has been injured or killed because they were passengers in Chrysler vehicles -- cars with known design defects or faulty components. They have also lost their ability to hold Chrysler legally accountable for all of the injuries and deaths that could have been avoided.

Beasley Allen attorney J. Cole Portis has filed a lawsuit for an Alabama woman whose husband was killed in a vehicular rollover accident while driving his 1993 Geo Tracker. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division, and names as Defendants Suzuki Motor Corporation; American Suzuki Motor Corporation; General Motors; General Motors of Canada, Ltd.; Cami Automotive Inc.; Takata Inc.; Takata-Fischer Corporation; Takata Fabrication Corporation; and Key Safety Restraint Sysytems, Inc.