Design met all federal safety stds for the gas tanks and bumper design in 1999
Statics indicate the design had lower incidence of fire and fatalities than cars,suvs and whatnot from that time period.
Bumper design met the 10 mph rating, and that truck hit the Jeep doing over 50 mph.
All the other fire related crashes showed similar circumstances, car going far in excess of 10 mph impacting the back of the Jeep.
Bottom line if I am on that jury, the guilty party is the person receklessly plowing into the back of the Jeep.
Now if Jeep didn't meet the Federal design stds for the rear bumper, then by all means sue Chrysler, but that isn't the case
Could someone today driving a antique Model T, get into an accident and then sue Ford because the Model T doesn't have 20 mph bumpers, no seat belts, no safety glass, no air bags, no ABS, no stability control?
Of course not, it met whatever standards there were at the time, just like the Jeep.
World needs to string up some of these money grubbing lawyers, the driver that hit the Jeep and their insurance needs to pay up and the driver go to jail for manslaughter!