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Toyota and Lexus vehicles with possible engine block issue recalled
Toyota is recalling about 44,00 model year 2020 Avalon Hybrids, Camrys, Camry Hybrids; model year 2019-2020 RAV4s, RAV4 Hybrids and model year 2020 Lexus ES 300h vehicles. Some of the vehicles may be equipped with an engine block that was manufactured incorrectly, which may cause coolant to leak internally and/or externally during normal engine operation. Click here for more.
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For the Lawyers
One-year contractual limit bars wrongful death suit. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a suit accusing a home security company of causing a customer's death in a house fire, saying in that a contractual provision setting a one-year time limit for civil claims was valid and enforceable. The three-judge panel unanimously affirmed a Kansas federal judge's decision to grant ADT LLC's motion to dismiss in a suit accusing the company of causing the death of customer, who died of smoke inhalation in August 2016 as a result of an accidental fire at her home. Julie Frost et al. v. ADT, case number 18-3259, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Click here for more.