Takata settles Florida airbag injury lawsuit

By:

David Shepardson

July 15, 2016 05:00 AM

WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for a Florida woman who was left a quadriplegic after a Takata airbag inflator deployed in a 2014 crash said Friday they had settled a lawsuit against the Japanese company.

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