May 19, 2022
A California federal judge on Thursday tentatively approved a $20 million deal ending class claims alleging Toyota Motor Corp.'s hybrid Prius vehicles were prone to stalling but rejected the parties' request to bar other litigants from pursuing parallel defect claims against the automaker.
December 06, 2021
A group of Toyota Motor Corp. car buyers on Friday asked a California federal judge to greenlight their $20 million class deal resolving claims that the company's hybrid Prius cars were prone to stalling.
October 21, 2020
Toyota must continue to fight in court all of a proposed consumer class action that claims its hybrid Prius cars were prone to stalling, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday, shutting down the automaker's bid to have the claims from two plaintiffs pushed to arbitration.
May 26, 2020
Toyota has told a California federal judge that two of the seven remaining named plaintiffs in a proposed consumer class action claiming the automaker's hybrid Prius cars were prone to stalling signed away their right to sue when acquiring their vehicles, and that their claims must be pushed into arbitration.
April 10, 2019
Toyota must face drivers' claims the company sold hybrid cars that it knew were prone to stalling, a California federal judge ruled, finding the proposed class of drivers raised valid questions about whether the automaker knew about the problem but said nothing.