Article: Feds bar vicarious liability lawsuits.(News)

Article: Automotive Trade Groups Seek Repeal of New York ...
Newsday (Melville, NY);  May 6, 2004 ;     597 words ... ... claiming that New York consumers have ... the so-called vicarious liability law caused General ... Manufacturers and Greater New York Automobile Dealers ... the 1920s, the vicarious liability law was intended ... Russ Haven, the New York Public Interest ...

Article: Back in the New York groove.(vicarious ...
Automotive News;  August 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... item that overrode New York's vicarious liability law. That law, which ... stopped writing leases in New York, citing legal liabilities. New York was the last state with an unlimited vicarious liability law. Similar laws ...

Article: Vicarious Liability Threatens New ...
PR Newswire;  November 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the release of its "New York Vicarious Liability Survey" detailing ... now present only in New York known as "vicarious liability," leasing companies ... definitive information on vicarious liability in New York for the New York ...

Article: Chrysler Financial Exits the Lease Market in the State of ...
PR Newswire;  March 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... May 1, 2004. New York remains the only ... unlimited lessor vicarious liability law. Under the existing law in New York the "owner ... under the existing vicarious liability statutes. "The ... environment in New York has forced us ...

Article: Automobile leasing and the vicarious liability of ...
Fordham Urban Law Journal;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... because of a 1920s New York law that creates vicarious liability for car owners. (2) The statute, New York Vehicle and Traffic ... exclude lessors from vicarious liability. I. THE HISTORY ... The Statutes New York Vehicle and Traffic ...

Article: It's not over yet; N.Y. judge finds federal vicarious ...
Automotive News;  November 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... pre-empt New York's vicarious liability statute ... involving vicarious liability have been decided - three in New York and one in ... he says. New York was the last ... unlimited vicarious liability law. Similar ...

Article: END VICARIOUS LIABILITY IN NEW YORK ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 6, 2003 ;     471 words ... ... should be a cap. Isn't New York an unlimited vicarious liability state? Don't the trial ... trying to do business in New York. My question is: Can ... time to stop unlimited vicarious liability in New York? Forty-six other states ...