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Choosing Your First Car: Safety Features
There are a lot of exciting options when buying a new vehicle. There are different brands, styles, colors, and features to consider. It may be difficult to choose the perfect vehicle, but are you considering vehicle safety? Are the trendy options really worthwhile if the car is not safe? Still, it could be easy […]
Calculating the Worth of Your Slip and Fall Claim
Slip and fall accidents are extraordinarily common. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2014, senior citizens fell 29 million times resulting in 7 million injuries. To make matters worse, this ended up costing a total of $31 billion in Medicare costs. Additionally, slip and fall accidents are among the leading causes of […]

TOYOTA ( 17V416000 )
This government agency only provides partial feeds to the public via RSS. For the full Auto Recall article please visit the original NHTSA website post: https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=17V416000&refurl=rss Dated: JUN 29, 2017 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2016 Tundra vehicles. The affected vehicles have a passenger knee air bag module that was attached […]
BUICK ( 17V412000 )
This government agency only provides partial feeds to the public via RSS. For the full Auto Recall article please visit the original NHTSA website post: https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=17V412000&refurl=rss Dated: JUN 29, 2017 General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2016-2017 Buick Envision vehicles. The affected vehicles received a replacement headliner as part of a repair. These service […]

Republican senator hopes to kill class-action rule within weeks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress could act within weeks to kill a new rule that bars financial companies from blocking consumers who wish to file class-action lawsuits, according to a key Republican senator. Senator Tom Cotton, a member of the Senate Banking Committee writing legislation to tackle the rule, said Wednesday he was Read […]
U.S. House panel approves broad proposal on self-driving cars
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House panel on Wednesday approved a sweeping proposal by voice vote to allow automakers to deploy up to 100,000 self-driving vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards and bar states from imposing driverless car rules. Representative Robert Latta, a Republican who heads the Energy and Commerce Read More