The Chrysler And GM Bankruptcies Will Wipe Out The Rights Of All Consumers Driving These Companies’ Cars – Philadelphia Product Liability Lawyer Weighs In
According to the Chrysler bankruptcy plan, families driving any Chrysler now on the road (approximately 10,000,000 vehicles), whose occupants are severely injured in a collision or because the car was not made safely, will have no recourse for damages against the old bankrupt Chrysler or the new successor company. The GM bankruptcy proposes the same result. There are approximately 30,000,000 GM vehicles on the road.
The Center For Justice and Democracy has stated that these results represent a cruel abandonment of catastrophically injured victims and that they are completely avoidable during any bankruptcy and also that in bankruptcy most injured victims are not regularly discarded especially when there are known products on the market that will continue to severely harm or kill people.
The Philadelphia automotive product liability lawyers at Reiff and Bily strongly feel that the actions of the government in allowing this situation to exist will deprive hundreds of thousands of people who have been injured and have lost their sole means of support the opportunity to have their day in court. Consumers in pending suits are not the only people who will be affected if the companies are shielded against product liability. Future liability lawsuits will also be barred against Chrysler and GM for vehicles sold before the companies’ reorganization.
If the automobile manufacturers are not held liable for the known defects, which have catastrophically injured as well as killed many innocent victims, they will literally be getting away with murder.
