IMS class action suit

[NoGaBiker]

I was peripherally connected to the GM Exploding Side Saddle Gas Tank litigation 15 years ago or so. People were getting blown up or burned alive in their GMC pickups because of a faulty design that more than one GM engineer had warned about in writing. Unfortunately, management ran the numbers and decided that a recall of however many million trucks were affected would be much more expensive than the cumulative cost of the litigation of the small number of people who would be burned to death in the trucks.

I say all this to say that juries are very impressed by such revelations, and tend to reward plaintiffs rather handsomely (to the tune of 9 figures in the Shannon Mosely case, including $101M in punatives!) But when a bunch of "rich" guys get stuck having to buy engines for their out-of-warranty Porsches, that's a lot tougher sell. Bank on it: a class-action or an individual lawsuit against PAG is a non-starter.

[Ghostrider 310]

No lawyer here, just saying that when Kodak was sued they used the council they kept on their own staff to dissuade further action and mute the complainers. As for the engines I'm quite sure when a 986 is sitting on a DEALER lot they don't make any mention that a thousand miles from now if it explodes you is on " yur own", seems like that might thwart sales. I'll go to the grave saying they owed everyone at the very least a communication in response to the problem being reported.

[NoGaBiker]

Originally Posted by Ghostrider 310

No lawyer here, just saying that when Kodak was sued they used the council they kept on their own staff to dissuade further action and mute the complainers.

Not sure what you're talking about (Kodak is probably sued weekly, or were when they were a relevant company), but what I'm pretty sure they didn't do is go into a courtroom and try to represent themselves in class-action litigation. It's kinda like asking the service writer (who knows a lot about Porsches and is very familiar with what the parts are and has maybe helped a tech do an oil change, and is excellent at managing the work of the techs) to perform a G50 transmission rebuild on an 88 Carrera 3.2 with his own two hands.