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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Appeals court upholds $11 million jury award in Toyota CAMRY crash




Appeals court upholds $11 million jury award in Toyota crash



Koua Fong Lee

Koua Fong Lee outside of the federal courthouse in Minneapolis 
in 2015. 

An appeals court has affirmed an $11 million jury award related to a Minnesota crash that killed three people and resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of a driver.
A jury in 2015 determined that Toyota was 60 percent to blame for the 2006 crash in St. Paul. A lawsuit alleged the crash was caused by a throttle design defect in a 1996 Camry that caused it to suddenly accelerate.
Toyota argued there was no defect. The company said driver Koua Fong Lee accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake.

• In 2014: As feds slam Toyota over hiding sticky pedal, let's remember Koua Fong Lee

Lee was incarcerated until 2010 after he won a new trial which showed he was wrongfully convicted. A subsequent civil trial in 2015 found Toyota liable. The 8th U.S. District Court of Appeals Friday affirmed the jury award.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/06/09/appeals-court-upholds-11-million-jury-award-in-toyota-crash







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