Eric Freedman

Chevy store whittles claims in finance dispute
A federal judge has thrown out most of a lawsuit, including Truth in Lending and racketeering claims, against a Maryland dealership in a dispute based on the financing of ...

Dealership group and its owner, sued by state, ordered to pay off trade-ins on time
A Pacific Northwest auto dealership group and its principal have been ordered to pay off vehicles traded in at four of its stores in a timely manner after being sued by t ...

Dealership group ordered to pay off trade-ins on time
A Pacific Northwest auto dealership group and its principal have been ordered to pay off vehicles traded in at four of its stores in a timely manner after being sued by t ...

Toyota store must defend airbag suit
A Toyota dealership that routinely serviced a 1995 Corolla for the original owner must defend a failure-to-warn airbag deployment suit brought by an injured plaintiff who ...

Ex-GM dealer fights fraud conviction
A former Florida auto dealer is appealing a federal judge's refusal to overturn his fraud and conspiracy conviction and 135-month prison sentence for engineering a floorp ...

Ex-Suzuki dealer who ran sales scam loses punitive damages fight
A former Kansas City Suzuki dealer who ran a too-good-to-be-true sales promotion has lost a bid to overturn a jury’s $500,000 punitive damage award to two customers ...

Toyota store must pay crash victims $16 million
A Philadelphia jury has ordered a local Toyota dealership to pay six crash victims $15.7 million for its negligent maintenance and repair of the 2006 Toyota Sienna rental ...

Nissan store asks judge to rethink arbitration order
A Florida dealership that sued Nissan North America over remodeling funds must arbitrate the dispute, a federal judge ruled last month. Now the store wants the judge to r ...

Legal experts split over class-action waivers
Class-action waivers minimize the risk of car-buyer class actions that are costly for dealerships to defend. But are they enforceable? ...

NADA ends its suit against FTC over Risk-Based Pricing Rule
The National Automobile Dealers Association has pulled the plug on its appeal of the Federal Trade Commission’s controversial interpretation of the Risk-Based Prici ...

Store that gave wrong expiration dates on service contracts faces class action
A Maryland dealership that offered a customer full reimbursement of damages in a service contract dispute is still subject to class-action claims by the customer and othe ...

Legal experts split over class-action waivers
Class-action waivers minimize the risk of car-buyer class actions that are costly for dealerships to defend. But are they enforceable? ...