Chorus of Leading Consumer Safety Groups Now Call on NHTSA To Re-Open Firestone Steeltex Safety-Defect Investigation, According to Lisoni & Lisoni.Business Editors/Legal Writers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2003 Continuing their effort to re-open the National Highway Traffic & Safety Administration (NHTSA NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (US government) ) safety-defect investigation of the Firestone fire·stone n. 1. A flint or pyrite used to strike a fire. 2. A fire-resistant stone, such as certain sandstones. Noun 1. Steeltex tire series, the Lisoni & Lisoni law firm (based in Pasadena, Calif.) met with high ranking See Google bomb. NHTSA officials to answer questions and provide further information on the alleged unsafe and defective Firestone Steeltex tire series. In a rare and valuable display of support, Ms. Joan Claybrook Joan Claybrook (born June 12, 1937) is an American lawyer who has served as President of Public Citizen since 1982. Previously, she was head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the Carter administration from 1977 to 1981. , the former Administrator of the NHTSA and current president of Public Citizen (a Washington, D.C.-based national, non-profit, public safety organization founded by Ralph Nader  This page is currently protected from editing until (UTC) or until disputes have been resolved. ), appeared at the meeting with the Lisoni law firm urging the NHTSA to re-open the Firestone Steeltex safety-defect investigation. Equally significant was the appearance of Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director of Center for Auto Safety The Center for Auto Safety (CAS) was founded in 1970 by Consumers Union and Ralph Nader as a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group focused on the United States automotive industry. . To further document the national public concern with the safety of the Firestone Steeltex tire series, both Public Citizen and Center for Auto Safety indicated they would submit formal letters recommending that NHTSA re-open the Firestone Steeltex safety-defect investigation. In addition, Safetyforum.com has joined Lisoni & Lisoni in criticizing the safety of the Firestone Steeltex tire series and called on NHTSA to re-open their defect investigation. Joseph Lisoni stated that tire-safety expert Mr. William Orr Not to be confused with William T. Orr. William Orr (1766 – 1797) was a member of the United Irishmen who was executed in 1797 in what was widely believed at the time to be "judicial murder" and whose memory led to the rallying cry “Remember Orr , who previously worked for Firestone for nearly twenty-five years evaluating defective tires, "blew the whistle" at the meeting to NHTSA officials, stating that due to a cost-cutting program where inferior quality materials and practices were used, the Firestone Steeltex tire series "suffered from self-inflicted cancer" and posed an undue safety risk to the American motoring public. Mr. Orr used an actual defective Steeltex tire to illustrate that the tire had been "de-engineered" and that critical safety components were allegedly lacking, among numerous other alleged defects described. Since the Lisoni law firm filed a petition on November 15, 2002, seeking the re-opening of the safety-defect investigation, the firm has provided the NHTSA with sixteen deaths caused by allegedly defective Firestone Steeltex tires, in addition to 5,000 claims of failed Steeltex tread tread injury to the coronet of the horse's hoof by treading on it by the opposite hoof, or by another horse when they are being worked in a team. If the coronary matrix is injured there may be a subsequent crack or deformity. separations causing numerous bodily injuries and extensive property damage. In addition to the petition to the NHTSA, the Lisoni law firm has a national class action against Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. seeking the recall of approximately thirty million Steeltex tires. The firm is frequently contacted by website at www.firestonesteeltexclassaction.com. |
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