A group of subsidiaries of Allstate have filed a subrogation suit against Hyundai and Kia to get back costs paid to insureds for damages when their cars suddenly erupted in flames.
According to the lawsuit, now in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Hyundai and Kia “purposefully and knowingly failed to recall millions of their defective vehicles containing potentially deadly defects, thereby putting countless lives at risk from 2006 to date.”
The first complaint from a consumer to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was filed in 2011 following a fire of