Car Owners Granted Class Certification in Takata Airbag Suit

A federal court certified multiple classes of vehicle owners in a consumer fraud suit alleging FCA US LLC should have known about an airbag defect in the vehicles it sold that caused unsafe explosions.

• The airbags were made by Takata Corp. and used ammonium nitrate, which creates small explosions to inflate the airbags but can spark more dangerous explosions in high heat and humidity, the plaintiffs say
• The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida’s class certification approval, which was decided June 15 and docketed June 20, said the plaintiffs had adequately shown FCA knew about the dangers ...