Hiroshi Shimizu, senior vice president for global quality assurance at Takata Corp., on Wednesday defended his company’s decision not to initiate a nationwide air bag recall, saying a regional recall is sufficiently addressing a deadly safety defect.
In his second public appearance on Capitol Hill in three weeks, Shimizu told members of a House panel that the most recent information Takata has on the problem shows that the Japanese manufacturer doesn’t need to expand recalls beyond the 7.8 million U.S. cars and trucks in the hot and humid climates of many Southern states. At least five deaths have been tied to the defect, which has brought more than 30 lawsuits, mostly class actions brought on behalf of consumers.
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