{"id":1197,"date":"2022-04-21T00:10:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/index.php\/settlement\/spotlight-ford-powershift-transmission-settlement\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T04:40:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T04:40:31","slug":"spotlight-ford-powershift-transmission-settlement","status":"publish","type":"settlement","link":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/settlement\/spotlight-ford-powershift-transmission-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Ford Powershift Transmission Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What is it?<\/strong> Owners of Ford vehicles equipped with a PowerShift transmission may qualify to claim cash and other benefits under a recent class action settlement. According to the Ford class action settlement, the car manufacturer is required to pay all legitimate claims. While there isn\u2019t a set value mentioned within settlement documents, experts familiar with the case estimate its worth at $35 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This litigation started back in 2012 with a Ford class action lawsuit filed by plaintiff Omar Vargas. Vargas alleged Ford\u2019s PowerShift transmission, installed in certain model years of Ford Focus and Fiesta vehicles, was defective in a way that put passengers and other motorists at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it? Owners of Ford vehicles equipped with a PowerShift transmission may qualify to claim cash and other benefits under a recent class action settlement. According to the Ford class action settlement, the car manufacturer is required to pay all legitimate claims. While there isn\u2019t a set value mentioned within settlement documents, experts familiar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/settlement\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/settlement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/settlement"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/settlement\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/settlement\/1197\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}