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"Consumers have been misled, induced, and defrauded into spending money and thus harmed by defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations and false advertising," Singleton Schreiber LLP partner Christopher R. Rodriguez wrote in the complaint.
A plaintiff in a putative class action claims Toyota U.S.A. exaggerated the cost of out-of-pocket maintenance services in order to inflate the value of an alternative prepaid plan it offers. The prepaid plan covers costs over a set number of years and/or accumulated mileage, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in San Diego.
"Any of us who've purchased a vehicle knows when you sit in a room and these car companies make promises to you about how you'...