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Tesla’s Debt Insurance Cost Rises After SEC Action Against CEO Musk
Oct 1 2018 // The cost to insure debt holdings in electric carmaker Tesla Inc. rose to its highest-ever level on Friday as the bond market reflected growing worries about a default, following the news that Chief Executive Elon Musk had...
Settlement with Tesla’s Musk Reflects SEC Strategy of Targeting Individual Executives
Oct 1 2018 // A high-profile settlement with Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk exemplifies a recent push by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go after executives and not just their companies, securities law experts...
Thai Soccer Boys’ Cave Rescuer Sues Musk for Defamation
Sep 18 2018 // Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Inc., was sued for defamation on Monday for falsely suggesting that a British caver who helped rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a Thailand cave in July was a pedophile and...
Tesla Driver in California Blames Autopilot for Firetruck Crash, Arrested for DUI
Sep 17 2018 // Authorities say a Tesla driver, who said he thought his car was in Autopilot mode, crashed into the back of a firetruck in San Jose. The California Highway Patrol says the Tesla rear-ended a fire engine that was stopped...
Tesla Driver in California Blames Autopilot for Firetruck Crash, Arrested for DUI
Aug 28 2018 // Authorities say a Tesla driver, who said he thought his car was in Autopilot mode, crashed into the back of a firetruck in San Jose. The California Highway Patrol says the Tesla rear-ended a fire engine that was stopped...
Tesla CEO Musk Just Made It Easier for Shareholders to Sue: Viewpoint
Aug 14 2018 // On Monday morning, six days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was thinking about taking the company private at $420 a share, with “funding secured” for the transaction, Tesla published a blog post in...
IIHS Tests Expose Risks of Semi-Autonomous Driving Systems
Aug 9 2018 // Cars and trucks with electronic driver assist systems may not see stopped vehicles and could even steer you into a crash if you’re not paying attention, an insurance industry group warns. The Insurance Institute for...
California OSHA Opens Third Probe into Tesla Factory
Jul 6 2018 // A California agency for occupational safety said on Thursday it opened a third investigation at Tesla Inc.’s factory in Fremont, California, following a complaint. The state’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Safety Probe of Tesla Crash Cites Battery Fire Risk
Jun 27 2018 // A Tesla Inc. Model S involved in a May 8 fatal high-speed crash in Florida reignited twice after firefighters extinguished a fire in the electric vehicle, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a...
Correction: Safety Agency Orders Firm to Stop Selling Tesla Warning Reduction Feature
Jun 20 2018 // Correction: An earlier headline on this article incorrectly identified the product as Tesla’s. It is not; it is made by an aftermarket firm. Tesla supports the move to end sales of the product. Insurance Journal...
Safety Agency to Watch Tesla Car Fire Exam Following California Incident
Jun 19 2018 // The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a technical specialist to observe Tesla Inc.’s examination of a Model S that caught fire in California on Friday, the agency said in a statement. The action is not...
How Tesla Severance Agreement Addresses Worker Safety Complaints
Jun 19 2018 // Language in a confidential severance agreement Tesla Inc. is using as part of the biggest job cut in its history is likely to deter dismissed employees from going public with worker safety concerns, according to...
Driver Had Hands off Wheel in Fatal Tesla Autopilot Crash
Jun 18 2018 // The driver of a Tesla Inc. Model X car using Autopilot did not have his hands on the steering wheel in the six seconds before a fatal crash in California in March, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said earlier...
Tesla Seeks to Quell Doubts About Factory Workers’ Safety
Jun 8 2018 // Tesla Inc. would need to release more information than Elon Musk gave shareholders to set the record straight on the electric-car maker’s work-safety record, according to former occupational health officials who...
Driver Had Hands off Wheel in Fatal Tesla Autopilot Crash in California
Jun 7 2018 // The driver of a Tesla Inc. Model X car using Autopilot did not have his hands on the steering wheel in the six seconds before a fatal crash in California in March, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said...
Tesla Hits Parked Police Vehicle in California, Driver Blames Autopilot
May 30 2018 // The driver of a Tesla Inc. Model S crashed into an unoccupied, parked police vehicle in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Tuesday and the driver told investigators the Tesla was in “Autopilot” mode at the time, police...
Tesla Settles Class Action Over ‘Inoperable’ Autopilot Features
May 29 2018 // Tesla Inc. on Thursday reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit with buyers of its Model S and Model X cars who alleged that the company’s assisted-driving Autopilot system was “essentially...
Consumer Groups Accuse Tesla of Deceptive Marketing of Autopilot
May 23 2018 // A pair of consumer advocacy groups want the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Tesla Inc., charging that the company’s advertising and other promotional claims about the safety and capability of its...
Man Dies After Tesla Crashes into Pond in California
May 22 2018 // Authorities in California’s San Francisco Bay Area are investigating the death of a man after a Tesla car he was driving veered off a road, crashed through a fence and into a pond. KTVU-TV reports that rescuers...
Utah Tesla Driver Had Hands off Wheel Before Crash, Data Shows
May 18 2018 // A Utah driver turned on the semi-autonomous functions of her Tesla vehicle and then didn’t touch the steering wheel again for 80 seconds before slamming into a firetruck stopped at a red light last week, a summary of...
