Side/window Air Bag problems of the 2013 Kia Motor RIO

On August 22 2017 8:45 pm while I was driving down a city street my driver side air bag deployed, for no reason causing me to lose control of the vehicle and run over a median in the road. I proceeded to pull into a parking lot to avoid any further incident and inspect any damage to my car. With the car still running, I walked the perimeter of the vehicle to see if there was any damage to the vehicle, with no bodily damage visible I decided to drive it home. The next morning, I went to check on my kia Rio and found transmission fluid all over the ground. I called my insurance and reported what had happened. They said I should contact kia corporation and report the air bag failure I did as requested. Then hurricane harvey hit the area and delayed any actions taken. After about a week kia towed the car to their lot for inspection. Kia asked what I wanted, I replied repair or replace my defective vehicle. They wrote a repair cost estimated at $9200. 00 and said that the air bag was not a recall item and denied my claim after another week passed. I had to file the claim on my insurance at that time and send it to another shop for inspection. Another week passed before my insurance filed it a total loss. After all this lost time from work and rental cost expenses that have yet to be reimbursed. Then having to go find a car that I feel would be trustworthy and dependable after these set of circumstances has proved to be difficult. Refinancing another car insuring it. I don't feel kia corporation held up their responsibility or liability in this situation. After further research on the internet I discovered that kia had many airbag recalls in previous years, and airbag failures in other kia automobiles across multi-year models.