Ford Found Liable in Rollover Case
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A Florida jury has found Ford Motor Co.   F.N liable for a rollover accident involving a Ford  Explorer, in the second such legal setback for the maker of  America's best-selling sport utility vehicle so far this year.
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Fordâs decision comes after the companyâs board met last week, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
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Ford Motor Co.  plans to raise the amount of a borrowing plan to roughly $22 billion to $23 billion from an original $18 billion, as it increases the size of a revolving credit line and a convertible note sale.
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A jury says Headwaters is entitled to the money because of a breach of contract.
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A Canadian law firm on Tuesday said it  had filed a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. F.N over what it  claims are defective door latches on about 400,000 of the  automaker's popular pickup trucks and SUVs.
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A U.S. court has ordered DaimlerChrysler AG and its heavy truck-making unit Freightliner LLC to pay more than $800 million in a tangled multinational fraud case, The Oregonian newspaper said on Saturday.
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By Anita Lee, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 4--GULFPORT -- State Farm and policyholder Michael McCoy settled a Hurricane Katrina case before the start of a scheduled trial this morning in U.S. District Court.   Katrina swept away McCoy's home, leaving only a slab.
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Ford Motor Co. F.N reported a  stronger-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday, but losses  widened in its core automotive business and the company's  shares sagged after it said U.S. regulators were looking into  its pension accounting practices.
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A Kansas City, Mo., jury ruled Tuesday that General Motors was not at fault in the vehicle-rollover death of professional football star Derrick Thomas.
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A mother whose nephew caused her son's death in a car crash is to be awarded damages.
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A jury awarded &#36;75 million in punitive damages Wednesday to the family of a 7-year-old girl paralyzed in a car wreck caused by a drunken football fan. A day earlier, the family was awarded &#36;60 million in compensatory damages.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Merck & Co. scored its second swift victory this week in a Vioxx product liability trial when an Alabama jury found on Friday it did not hide health risks associated with its withdrawn arthritis drug or knowingly market a faulty product.
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Ford Motor Co. F.N has expanded its  recall of Escape and Mazda Tribute SUVs to nearly 600,000  vehicles, according to the automaker and the U.S. National  Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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A man left paralysed in a road accident wins damages after the Ministry of Defence admits liability.
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General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the two largest US automakers, said they will add new electronic systems to sport-utility vehicles to help prevent rollover accidents.
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The work may have been subcontracted to another firm.
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A New Orleans jury handed Merck & Co. a victory Wednesday in the latest federal Vioxx product liability trial, finding that the drugmaker adequately warned of the heart risks associated with the medicine.