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As Toyota's Georgetown plant resumed full production Monday after a weeklong shutdown to fix a problem with accelerator pedals, the nation's largest auto insurer revealed it had alerted federal safety regulators on numerous occasions starting in 2007 about reports of unexpected acceleration in the vehicles.
Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems - the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.
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