Mercedes-Benz agrees to pay nearly $150 million to settle multistate emissions allegations
Mercedes-Benz USA and parent company Daimer AG have agreed to pay $149.6 million to settle allegations that the automaker secretly installed devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles to pass emission tests, a coalition of attorneys general announced Monday. According to the coalition, between 2008 and 2016 the German automaker equipped more than 211,000 diesel…