{"id":57182,"date":"2009-12-01T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/01\/ford-loses-appeal-in-roll-over-case-must-pay-55m\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:29:00","slug":"report-ford-loses-appeal-in-rollover-case-must-pay-55m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/57182","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Ford loses appeal in rollover case, must pay $55M"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to The Detroit News<\/em>, the Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that Ford Motor Company is at fault for a 2002 rollover crash involving a 1997 Ford Explorer and the Dearborn, MI-based automaker must pay $55 million in punitive damages. Benetta Buell-Wilson’s Explorer rolled over four-and-a-half times<\/a> after she swerved to avoid debris. When the roof collapsed on her neck, it severed her spinal cord and left her paralyzed.<\/p>\n

Ford unsuccessfully argued that it shouldn’t be punished due to the fact that the Explorer complied with federal safety standards when it was built. Buell-Wilson was originally awarded $369 million in damages, but a pair of California courts cut down the total value of damages to $82.6 million.<\/p>\n

[Source: The Detroit News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

REPORT: Ford loses appeal in rollover case, must pay $55M<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: SUV, Government\/Legal, Safety, Ford According to The Detroit News, the Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that Ford Motor Company is at fault for a 2002 rollover crash involving a 1997 Ford Explorer and the Dearborn, MI-based automaker must pay $55 million in punitive damages. Benetta Buell-Wilson’s Explorer rolled over four-and-a-half times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}