Class Plaintiffs’ Warranty, Other Claims Over Porsche Cooling System Tubes Proceed

Key claims by plaintiffs in a proposed nationwide class action over an allegedly defective cooling system in Porsche Cayenne SUVs survived an effort to dismiss the complaint in a multidistrict litigation in federal court July 9 (Porsche Cars North America Inc. Plastic Coolant Tubes Products Liability Litigation, In re, S.D. Ohio, 2:11-md-2233).

The plaintiffs may proceed on some claims for breach of an implied warranty because limitations on the implied warranties covering the vehicles may have been unconscionable, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio wrote in an opinion by Judge Gregory L. Frost. ...