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Tesla Sued Over Highway Crash When Model 3’s Airbags Malfunctioned

Jun 29 2020 // Tesla Inc. was sued over a Maryland highway crash last year in which a Model 3’s airbags failed to deploy, leaving a college professor with brain damage.Elon Musk, the company’s co-founder, has touted the Model...

National Safety Agency Opens Probe Into Touchscreens on Tesla Model S Cars

Jun 24 2020 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday it had opened an investigation into 63,000 Tesla Model S cars after reports of media-control unit failures that led to the loss of the use of...

Companies Press Insurance Brokers for Workarounds to Rising D&O Costs

Jun 15 2020 // When Elon Musk said in April he was dropping the insurance policy that protects Tesla Inc.’s board from shareholder lawsuits, it got Skip McBride’s attention.To McBride, who used to manage law firm Bracewell...

CEO Musk Replaces Tesla’s D&O Policy with ‘Personal Coverage’

May 1 2020 // Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk is getting into the insurance business again, sort of.Musk has cancelled his company’s directors and officers insurance (D&O), replacing it with a promise to personally provide his...

Judge Clears Way for Shareholder Suit Against Tesla, Musk Over Going-Private Tweet

Apr 16 2020 // A federal judge said Tesla Inc. and Chief Executive Elon Musk must face a lawsuit claiming they misled shareholders when Musk tweeted that he had secured funding to take his electric car company private in a $72 billion...

Tesla, Drivers, Regulators All to Blame for Fatal Crash, Says Safety Board

Mar 23 2020 // The National Transportation Safety Board says two drivers, Tesla and lax regulation of new partially automated driving systems are to blame for a fatal 2019 crash in Florida involving a Tesla on Autopilot.The NTSB, in a...

Safety Board Hits Tesla Autopilot Design, Regulator’s ‘Misguided’ Approach

Feb 26 2020 // The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday sharply criticized Tesla Inc.’s lack of system safeguards in a fatal 2018 Autopilot crash in California and called U.S. regulators’ approach in overseeing the...

Safety Board to Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash, Issue Safety Recommendations

Feb 24 2020 // The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday to establish the probable cause of a fatal March 2018 Tesla Autopilot crash in California and will issue a series of safety recommendations,...

Safety Probe Finds Tesla Driver Killed in Crash Reported Prior Autopilot Problems

Feb 12 2020 // A Tesla driver killed in a March 2018 crash in California while using the Autopilot driver-assistance system had reported that on prior trips, the car had steered away from the highway, the National Transportation Safety...

Musk Holds Out As Other Tesla Directors Settle Investors’ SolarCity Claims for $60M

Jan 30 2020 // All Tesla Inc. directors except Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk agreed to a $60 million settlement to resolve shareholder lawsuits over the company’s purchase of SolarCity, according to people familiar with the...

Tesla Pushes Back on Call for Probe; Denies Unintended Acceleration in Vehicles

Jan 21 2020 // Tesla Inc. said on Monday there was no unintended acceleration in its vehicles, as it responded to a petition to a U.S. safety regulator to investigate and recall around 500,000 of the company’s electric cars over...

Feds to Investigate Deadly Tesla Crash in California

Jan 13 2020 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the crash of a speeding Tesla that killed two people in a Los Angeles suburb, the agency announced.The agency wouldn’t say whether the Tesla Model S...

U.S. Safety Agency Opens Probe into Deadly Tesla Crash in Indiana

Jan 9 2020 // The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it is launching an investigation into the Dec. 29 crash of a Tesla Model 3 that left a passenger dead after the vehicle collided with a parked fire truck...

Feds to Investigate Deadly Tesla Crash in California

Jan 3 2020 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the crash of a speeding Tesla that killed two people in a Los Angeles suburb, the agency announced Tuesday.Agency spokesman Sean Rushton wouldn’t...

Federal Safety Agency Starts 12th Probe Into Tesla Crashes

Dec 16 2019 // The U.S. auto safety agency said on Friday it will investigate a 12th Tesla crash that may be tied to the vehicle’s advanced Autopilot driver assistance system after a Tesla Model 3 rear-ended a parked police car in...

Tesla Crash in Connecticut Elicits New Warnings About Autopilot Shortcomings

Dec 10 2019 // Another Tesla Inc. vehicle operating on the carmaker’s driver-assistance system branded as Autopilot has crashed into a parked emergency vehicle, eliciting fresh warnings about the shortcomings of automated...

Tesla Driver Who Hit Two Cars in Connecticut Says He Used Autopilot

Dec 9 2019 // The driver of a Tesla says the car was on autopilot when it struck a police cruiser and a disabled vehicle on Saturday in Connecticut, according to State Police.State Police said troopers responded to Interstate 95...

Jury Clears Tesla CEO Musk of Defamation Claim for ‘Pedo’ Tweet

Dec 8 2019 // Elon Musk defeated defamation allegations Friday from a British cave explorer who claimed he was branded a pedophile when the Tesla CEO called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet.Vernon Unsworth, who participated...

U.S. Safety Agency Faults Uber, Driver in Probe of 2018 Autonomous Car Crash Death

Nov 20 2019 // A U.S. safety agency on Tuesday faulted Uber for inadequate attention to safety and decisions in the company’s autonomous vehicle development in an investigation into the first-ever death involving a self-driving...

Walmart Settles Lawsuit Against Tesla over Rooftop Solar Panel Fires

Nov 6 2019 // Walmart Inc. has settled its lawsuit against Tesla Inc. over fires at more than a half-dozen of the retail giant’s stores.Walmart sued the electric-car maker and solar company in New York State Supreme Court in...