Torts/Personal Injury,
Contracts
Aug. 21, 2024
A look under the 'hood' reveals that auto manufacturers are failing to fulfill their legal obligations
Auto manufacturers are not complying with the California Lemon Law, which requires them to repurchase or replace defective vehicles, leading to a rise in lawsuits.
Isaac Agyeman
Associate Attorney, Joseph Kaufman & Associates
Pepperdine University SOL; Malibu CA
Last month, the Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC) attacked California's lemon law, arguing that changes to the lemon law are needed to disincentivize greedy plaintiffs' attorneys who file too many lawsuits. But a closer look at the mechanics of the lemon law statute itself, actual data, and recent cases, tells an entirely different story.
The data shows that the number of lemon law lawsuits is minuscule compared to the number of vehicles reg...
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