Auto-Safety Win, Billion Dollar Penalty for Faulty Airbags

TAKATA’S DANGEROUSLY DEFECTIVE AIRBAGS

Several Whistleblower Partners attorneys represented Mark Lillie and an anonymous whistleblower who reported Takata’s explosive airbags that claimed the lives of 22 people and set off a worldwide recall of nearly 100 million airbag inflators. In January 2017, Takata pled guilty and agreed to pay $1 billion in criminal penalties due to its fraudulent sales of defective airbag inflators. The whistleblowers received the first recovery under the Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act. See Detroit Free Press.