Electric vehicle maker Tesla is the subject of multiple lawsuits over a range of issues, including the design of its door handles and its autonomous driving system.

In August, a Florida jury found that Tesla Autopilot was at least partially responsible for a crash that killed Naibel Benavides in 2019 and awarded the family as much as $243 million.

While Tesla has appealed the decision, it wasn’t the first time the company has faced a lawsuit.

Tesla’s history of settling lawsuits

  • $10.5 million settlement – California, 2023: A Tesla Model X with Autopilot engaged hit a highway barrier, killing the driver. The family said Autopilot failed to detect the obstacle and that Tesla misrepresented the vehicle’s capabilities.
  • $8.2 million settlement – California, 2022: A pedestrian was killed in a crosswalk by a Tesla Model 3 with Autopilot engaged that didn’t stop or alert the driver of an issue until it was too late.
  • $7.5 million settlement – California, 2021: A Tesla Model S with Autopilot engaged rear-ended a stopped vehicle at high speed, instantly killing the victim. Investigators said they found no evidence that the car even tried to brake before the collision.
  • $6.8 million settlement – California, 2020: A Tesla Model X with Autopilot engaged crashed into a parked fire truck. The driver of the vehicle survived, but the passenger died from blunt force trauma. 

Tesla faced another lawsuit that was supposed to begin in January, but the Florida judge in that case is blaming the company for having to delay the proceedings.

Tesla has settled a number of lawsuits related to its vehicles.

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Florida judge delays Tesla trial over fatal crash

This week, a Florida state judge delayed the Tesla trial over a fatal crash from September 2021 in Coral Gables.

The plaintiffs in the case accuse Tesla of repeatedly failing to provide them with discovery materials, leaving the attorneys “nowhere near trial-ready.”

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“We still haven’t reviewed all of Tesla’s documents — they stripped out metadata, making them unusable,” John Uustal, attorney for the family of Jazmin Alacala, the 19-year-old victim in the crash, said, according to USAHerald.

He said Tesla’s repeated discovery failures have made proceeding with the trial in January as originally scheduled unfeasible.

Meanwhile, Tesla counsel Giger Boyd says, “Tesla is ready to move forward. We’ve met every court deadline and have been asking for depositions under the plaintiff’s control.”

Florida judge calls out Tesla for fatal crash trial delay

Broward County Circuit Judge Michael A. Robinson granted the plaintiff’s request for a trial delay during a Zoom hearing on Nov. 13.

“Once I set a date, it will be set in concrete,” Robinson reportedly said during the call. “We’ve got to speed through this — the Supreme Court frowns on delays.”

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Judge Robinson was previously critical of Tesla when he sanctioned the company on October 24, after it delivered more than 123,000 pages of testing documents without metadata or file names. The judge called the evidence “virtually useless” without the information.

“Plaintiffs would have to print nearly 125,000 pages and manually match them to Tesla’s key,” Robinson said. “Had Tesla produced them in native format, review would’ve been manageable.”

He concluded that Tesla purposefully made trial discovery “more difficult, time-consuming, and expensive” and ordered the company to pay the plaintiffs’ attorney fees related to the sanction motion.

Fatalities in deadly 2021 Tesla crash could have been avoided, plaintiffs say

Nicholas Garcia, 20, was driving his Tesla Model 3 at 90 mph in a 30 mph zone when he struck a speed bump and his vehicle lost control.

The car slammed into a tree and burst into flames. Garcia and his passenger, 19-year-old Jazmin Alcala, were killed.

The families say that Tesla designed a defective suspension and chassis that failed under “ordinary and foreseeable driving conditions,” due to the vehicle’s low frame and unprotected battery.

Tesla denies any wrongdoing.

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