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Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit as Another Jury Trial Loomed

Tesla Inc. has reached a deal to resolve a lawsuit over the death of a Model S passenger in a fiery 2016 crash, marking the second time in two months the electric-vehicle maker has avoided a jury trial in California …

Tesla Settles Case Over Fatal Autopilot Crash of Apple Engineer

Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a 2018 car crash that killed an Apple engineer after his Model X, operating on Autopilot, swerved off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday. The settlement was made on the …

Tesla Cleared of Fault in Fatal Chinese Crash: Local Media Reports

A Chinese court has ruled a Tesla Inc. vehicle wasn’t the cause of a 2022 accident that killed two people and injured three others, Shanghai Securities News reported. The automaker had sued a social media influencer who alleged the crash …

California Judge Rules Tesla Owners Must Arbitrate False Ad Claims Over Autopilot Feature

A California federal judge has ruled that a group of people who own cars made by Tesla Inc must pursue claims that the company misled the public about its autopilot features in individual arbitration rather than court. The ruling marks …

Tesla Sued by US Agency Over Alleged Harassment of Black Factory Workers

A U.S. civil rights agency sued Tesla Inc. on Thursday, claiming the electric carmaker has tolerated severe harassment of Black employees at its flagship Fremont, California, assembly plant, in charges similar to cases brought by the state and by Tesla …

Plaintiffs’ Attorney Cites ‘Experimental Vehicles’ in Tesla Trial Over Autopilot Fatality

The lawyer representing victims of a fatal crash of a Tesla Model 3 car in his opening statement in court on Thursday blamed the company’s Autopilot driver assistant system, saying that “a car company should never sell consumers experimental vehicles.” …

Tesla Braces For Its First Trial Involving Autopilot Fatality

Tesla Inc. is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what will likely be a major test of Chief Executive Elon Musk’s assertions …

Tesla Directors Pay $735M to Settle Shareholder Lawsuit Over Excess Compensation

Tesla Inc.’s directors will return $735 million to the company to settle claims they grossly overpaid themselves in one of the largest shareholder settlements of its kind, according to a Monday filing in a Delaware court. The settlement resolves a …

Black Workers at California Tesla Factory Allege Rampant Racism, Seek Class-Action Status

Tesla may face a class-action lawsuit after 240 Black factory workers in California described rampant racism and discrimination at the electric automaker’s San Francisco Bay Area plant, including frequent use of racial slurs and references to the manufacturing site as …

Tesla Safety Is Focus of South Korean Criminal Trial Over Fiery, Fatal Crash

In an upscale Seoul neighborhood two years ago, a white Tesla Model X smashed into a parking lot wall. The fiery crash killed a prominent lawyer – a close friend of South Korea’s president. Prosecutors have charged the driver with …