Eric Freedman

A Kentucky dealership employee can pursue a personal injury suit against the company that installed an allegedly defective Ram 5500 pickup tailgate, a federal judge ruled in March.

The decision by a Texas federal judge rejected Sonic's bid to dismiss the labor violation case filed on behalf of porters, valets, car washers, detailers and shuttle drivers.

Causeway Automotive may ask the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to read its policy differently than Zurich American or a U.S. district judge did and to honor its claim over state shutdown losses.

A company that provides detailing, valet, car wash and driver services to about 140 dealerships in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania failed to pay overtime to its employees and falsified time records for years, the U.S. Labor Department contends in a civil suit.

A Brentwood, Tenn., dealership subjected its only female service adviser to "different terms and conditions of employment" than male co-workers and fired her because of her gender, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has charged in a federal lawsuit.

A former service adviser filed a racial discrimination suit accusing the store of firing him in retaliation for his complaint about Confederate material on a service technician's tool cabinet.

The rare sports car was resold at more than twice the price to a Hong Kong buyer within weeks of its original sale in Canada, despite  a two-year hold agreement, the automaker alleges in a lawsuit. 

The Michigan Court of Appeals threw out an award of $68,700 in attorney fees against a dealership whose service department failed to properly tighten the lug nuts on a wheel during a tire rotation.

A federal appeals court has torpedoed allegations that SiriusXM violated the Driver's Privacy Protection Act by using information collected in a dealership management system to solicit subscriptions.