Plaintiffs' lawyers and safety advocates called on Bridgestone/Firestone today to considerably widen the scope of its recall of tires for sport utility vehicles and pickups.
On Monday, a leaked internal memo revealedexecutives boasting about saving $100m£65m5m) by limiting the scope of a recall on floor mats.
"Based on NHTSA's open investigation, the agency will take appropriate action, including expanding the scope of the recall if warranted," an agency statement said.
In a memo made public this winter, officials at Toyota said the company had saved $100 million in 2007 by limiting the scope of a recall on Toyota and Lexus cars.
But many parents were frustrated by the scope of the recall, said Dr. Jeannette Levenstein, a pediatrician in Encino, Calif., who has written about the issue on the parenting Web site strollertraffic.com And, she added, they have been frustrated by a dearth of generic alternatives.
It didn't stop Toyota from celebrating their successful negotiations with regulators to limit the scope of a recall due to faulty accelerators in their cars, which initially saved them $100 million even though it could cost some drivers their lives.
Given the scope of the recall and the limited information made available thus far, Fogg says that "it's too early to say" what the damage looks like, and that "not even Samsung" has an idea of what the impact on the bottom line will be.
There was scope for recall bias while exploring the OOPs on child birth without JSY benefits.
"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reviewed more than 400,000 pages of Toyota documents to determine whether the scope of its recalls for pedal entrapment was sufficient," the agency's administrator, David Strickland, said in a statement.
The scope of Roche's recall is extraordinary, if not unprecedented, in the battle against the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, global health officials say.
Amid a fresh wave of toy recalls yesterday, a consumer advocacy group said it had found hazardous levels of lead in many toys made out of vinyl plastic, potentially expanding the scope of testing and recalls of contaminated toys.
