Score one for Toyota

Back in September, we blogged about a former Toyota attorney who filed a lawsuit against Toyota, claiming that he was told to squelch evidence regarding a number of rollover cases. The attorney, Dimitrios Biller, had worked as head of Toyota’s rollover litigation group for just under five years. Biller stated that Toyota destroyed or hid evidence in some 300 cases and in October provided documents to a federal courtroom that allegedly support his claims. If Biller wins his lawsuit, many rollover cases may be reopened.

Another lawyer, E. Todd Tracy, already jumped on Biller’s bandwagon and hoped to reopen 17 rollover cases. After reviewing some of the files containing the “hidden evidence,” however, Tracy dropped the lawsuit to reopen the cases. Tracy said the documents do not provide sufficient information for him to prove his case. While this is good news for Toyota, there are still many obstacles for the company to overcome, as attorneys hoping to reopen rollover cases are lined up and ready to go. For more information, go here.

This was posted on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 and is filed in the Legal categories.