Attorney David Femminineo told FOX 2 that the dealership, Rochester Hills Chrysler Jeep Dodge, and the family of Jeffrey Hawkins agreed to an undisclosed settlement after he was killed on March 13, 2020, when the owner of a Jeep brought his car in for an oil change.
Friday, June 24, 2022
Jeep dealership pays family of worker killed during oil change, car's owner pays nothing
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Jeep dealership in Rochester Hills has agreed to a settlement with the family of a mechanic who was killed on the job in March 2020 after the victim's family sued the owner of the car.
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Winning a lawsuit is not like winning the lottery.....
ReplyDeleteThe incompetence of people working at a car dealership seems to have no bounds. I spent 15 years as a Teamster car hauler. Let me relate just a few instances.....I'm waiting to get papers signed so i can leave and a mechanic walks into the service area and asks the service manager "what happened to the yellow Jeep I was working on before lunch?" The service manager says, "I thought you were done so I gave it back to the owner and she left". At the point, the mechanic drops 20 lug nuts on the counter and tells him he couldn't get the wheels off the car. Now there's this 19 year old girl driving her Jeep without a lug nut on any of the wheels. Luckily, she drove it straight home without the wheels falling off.
ReplyDeleteAnother time, I'm waiting for the guy to finish checking in a car and I'm standing next to a guy who's waiting on his car. A kid pulls a ZR1 Corvette our of the wash bay and another kid pulls up next to him with one of those black SS454 Chevy trucks. The both light up the tires and go tearing off down the road. The guy I'm standing next to is the proud owner of that ZR1 Corvette.
I'm delivering a load of Mercedes to a dealer in North Jersey when the owner of the store comes up to me and asks me if there is any damage to any of the cars. I tell him no but there is one car that is already his no matter what's wrong with it. Seems I had the first Mercedes with a supercharger on it and 4 salesmen jumped in it and were tearing around the parking lot with it. Just then they come flying past us......It wasn't pretty what happened next.
I could go on and on about stupid shit that happens on a dealers lot.
I had a good friend, now passed away, who was a body mechanic. His best customer was a new car dealership, fixing nicks and scratches, and sometimes worse, just from the cars being taken from the factory lot to the dealership.
ReplyDeleteI visited the Flint auto plant with my ex wife's uncle, a supervisor on the railroad line that ships cars. As far as I could see, nothing else but brand new Chevy Suburban. Acres of them, waiting for delivery to the dealers.
This had to be back in about 1980-1982. That many of those new Suburbans all together, were almost like a work of art, sitting there, so beautiful and pristine.
I can't think of any new car today that gives me the same feeling of pride at what our American workers are able to turn out. Not their fault, I blame the government and all of the BS regulations that force car makers to pretty much follow the same mold.
There will never again be a 68 Camero, or a '57 Chevy, or my own baby, the 1973 Ford Grand Torino. While perhaps safer and more reliable, new cars just don't have any soul. And American kids today have been raised not knowing just what they missed, and so they don't demand more personality in their cars. Hell, a great number of young people now don't even have a desire to drive, yet alone own a car.
To those of our generation, a license and the car keys meant freedom and were a symbol of our adulthood.
The new generation has been indoctrinated to be afraid of freedom.
DeleteI thought this didn't make any sense... then read the article. American law at its finest.
ReplyDeleteCan't sue the dealership, legal indemnity; can't sue the manufacturer as that would be stupid, and can't sue the technician because of legal indemnity again. It's absurd that the owner would be legally responsible for the actions of a technician when they are presumed to be competent and qualified. On top of this mess, have to beg the courts to grant indemnity to the owner of the vehicle and the legal liability shifted to the dealership, where it should have been in the first place.
Ridiculous...
- Arc