Jaguar Hit With $5M Battery Defect Class Action Lawsuit

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Jaguar has been hit with a proposed $5 million class action lawsuit alleging that the luxury car manufacturer intentionally sold Land Rovers that contained a defective electrical system which caused the battery to drain and created “starting” issues.

Lead plaintiff Amy Block of New Jersey filed the battery defect class action lawsuit against Jaguar Land Rover North America LLC on Monday on behalf of herself and potential Class Members, alleging the company has violated New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act.

According to the class action lawsuit, Block purchased a 2009 Land Rover LR2 with all the options that came with the vehicle including an entertainment system. However, the plaintiff claims that the vehicle contained a defect that caused the electrical and entertainment system to drain the battery making the Land Rover unable to start.

The Land Rover class action lawsuit alleges that the manufacturer attempted to fix the issue by replacing the battery but the new battery did not resolve the problem. Lead plaintiff Block claims she informed Land Rover at least three additional times about the defect but the car manufacturer failed to remedy the issue.

The plaintiff alleges that Land Rover knew about the battery defect in their vehicles that were on the market between 2007 to the present day. However, despite this knowledge the class action lawsuit claims that Jaguar “uniformly concealed material information in its marketing, advertising, and sale of the vehicles, which Land Rover knew to be defective, both at the time of sale and on an ongoing basis.”

Lead plaintiff Block claims she filed the proposed Jaguar class action lawsuit on behalf of Class Members who have unknowingly been placed at a safety risk and who have been forced to pay for the cost of repairing the defective system.

The Jaguar battery defect class action lawsuit alleges that reasonable consumers would expect that the Land Rover’s electrical system would function free from defects. Lead plaintiff Block also claims that the proposed Class Members would assume that Land Rover manufacturers would not “conceal problems such as the defect from them, to continually deny its existence, or that Land Rover would refuse to bear the repair costs that become necessary to correct the problems resulting from defective electrical and/or entertainment system and battery.”

Block expects the Jaguar lawsuit will bring restitution to Class Members in the amount Land Rover obtained as a result of the company’s misconduct.

If approved, the battery defect class action lawsuit would be open to all Class Members who reside in the United States who own, or have owned, a 2008 to 2015 Land Rover LR2 and/or any other Land Rover model containing the defect that causes the battery to prematurely drain, stops the vehicle from starting, and needs to be replaced.

The plaintiff is represented by Bruce H. Nagel of Nagel Rice, LLP.

The Jaguar Battery Defect Class Action Lawsuit is Block v. Jaguar Land Rover North America, Case No. 2:15-cv-05957, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

UPDATE: On May 26, 2016, a Jaguar class action lawsuit will continue on breach of warranty claims after all other allegations were dismissed by a federal judge.