[SmithL]

I guess a voucher to buy a Lexus would be out of the question.

[Don W]

The whole rollover thing was blown out of proportion: if you were a half intelligent driver you wouldn’t lock up the brakes whenever something odd happened, and the brake lockup was determined to be the root cause of the rollovers.

Ford is just trying to put this behind them so they’re paying some inept, incompetent whiners off. Of course the attorneys are the winners here. Just like in the Pinto case.

[upchuck]

Me suspects Mr. Roddy’s voucher was for a tad more than $500 :)

[Corporate Law]

I guess taking mine off of my hands is out of the question as well.

[gridlock]

It will allow vehicle owners to apply for $500 vouchers to buy new Explorers or $300 vouchers to buy other Ford or Lincoln Mercury products, Roddy told The Associated Press.

Customers get vouchers and the lawyers get cash. At a Million vouchers at and average of $400 each, the lawyers should rake in about $100,000,000.00. Not a bad chunk of change. Of the $400 Million in coupons, probably less than 1 in 10 will be cashed. The lawyers will wind up getting more money than the plaintiffs.

I would love it if a judge banged his gavel and said that the lawyers had to accept the same worthless non-transferrable scrip as the plaintiffs. What are they going to do with 300,000 non-transferrable coupons for 10% off a Ford Explorer?

[Who is John Galt?]

"...plaintiffs in four states who claimed its Explorer sport utility vehicles were prone to rollovers..."

This provides the perfect legal precedent for suing Schwinn - bicycles are also "prone to rollovers."

What a bunch of freaking left-coast morons...

[sig226]

I saw an ad for a class action against one of the major cereal manufacturers in the early 1990s and answered it. Since I was using one of those supermarket discount cards, I could demonstrate that I purchased the product. Otherwise, you had to have receipts. So I got the application and mailed it back, waiting to see what would happen. I did it out of curiosity. Sure enough, I got a coupon in the mail for half a buck off the cereal.

What a friggin’ scam. They accuse the maker of ripping off the consumer, collect a fortune in contingent fees from the settlement, and the payback for the so called victims is nothing more than an incentive to do further business with a company that supposedly ripped them off.

[norwaypinesavage]

Lets see, 1 million people in the class, times $500 per person equals a half billion dollar settlement. With at least 50% fees to the lawyers, that’s a cool quarter billion cash to the lawyers, and hardly anyone will use the certificates.

[G-Man 1]

Is the boycott of Ford by the American Family Association still on be cause of Bill Fords support of the gays.He is supposed to be a big financial supporter of their causes.

[traditional1]

As usual: Millions for the Lawyers (CASH), and “coupons” for the actual harmed parties.