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Reclining Seat in Hyundai Vehicle May Cause Injury or Death

Recently, a San Angelo federal jury awarded survivors of a passenger killed in a 2005 Hyundai Tucson SUV because of a reclining seat in the vehicle. This is more of a common problem than you think, either with reclining seats that malfunction in an accident, or simply are set up in such a way that they are bound to cause injury if the vehicle is in a collision. While reclining seats are advertised as luxury features that allow passenger to recline and rest while the driver is operating the vehicle oftentimes they are hazardous additions, as was found in the Hyundai case.

Hyundai was told to pay the family members of the female passenger that had been ejected $1.8 million dollars in damages because of a defective reclining seat. The passenger had been sleeping in the seat when the accident occurred and was ejected out of the car. The family and the attorney for the family claimed that the seat was defective and successfully proved it. This is where a car accident attorney can be instrumental in proving defective components of a car caused an accident.

Cases that involve defective parts of a car, whether they be reclining seats, seat belts or some other part on the car that is not working properly are more common than you would think. Your attorney may be able to find past cases from your car manufacturer where they released a car that was defective or were forced to recall a vehicle because it was deemed unsafe. Ask your attorney if your car accident could have been caused by a defective part on your car or if the manufacturer of your car has a history of releasing unsafe automobiles.

In this particular case, it was a Hyundai with a faulty reclining seat, but recently the car maker Toyota was forced to recall millions of automobiles because of a bad gas pedal. There have many other cases that your attorney may know about including manufacturers like GM, Ford, Honda, Chrysler, and Nissan, who have all had lawsuits filed. Cases have been won involving parts on vehicles that were faulty, and a qualified car accident attorney may be able to do testing on the part to determine if it truly is unsafe.

Make sure that you contact an attorney right away if you believe this to be the case, because car manufacturers will use many different tactics to get out of paying, or recalling vehicles. For instance, in the Hyundai case, the manufacture claimed that the reclining seat was only supposed to have been used while the car was not in motion, meaning that they were not liable for the accident. The attorney for the plaintiff successfully argued the case to prove that they were indeed liable, and they ended up paying nearly two million for their deadly mistake.

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What would the charges be?

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Medical Fraud is a felony. Possibly “conspiracy for medical fraud?”

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