Honda May Face Record $35M Fine Over Unreported Death Claims

Honda may face record fines in the U.S. over unreported claims of death and injury. The automaker said it failed to report over 1,700 claims involving Honda vehicles to U.S. regulators. The company could now be looking at fines of $35 million, one of the biggest in history. An investigation is now underway after Honda blamed computer programming errors and sighted inadvertent data entry. The underreporting spanned an 11 year time period. The injury claim omissions came to light following the investigation into Takata's faulty airbags. The global recall has raised questions about automakers' failure to disclose potential product defects to the government. The president of Honda said that there had been a misunderstanding of company obligations to the authorities under U.S. law.