GM Settles With California Over Ignition Switch Statements for $5.75M February 16, 2021 By David Shepardson General Motors Co. agreed to a $5.75 million settlement to resolve allegations it made false statements to California’s largest pension...
GM Settles Faulty Ignition Switch Cases for $120 Million March 30, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel General Motors Co. has reached a $120 million settlement with owners who claimed that their vehicles lost value because of...
Reuters Report: How Secrecy in Courts Stymies Safety Regulators January 17, 2020 By Mike Spector, Jaimi Dowdell and Benjamin Lesser LEBANON, Ohio — Something wasn’t right with the Rhino. Reports started trickling in to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)...
GM to Fight $1B Settlement over Faulty Ignition Switches August 14, 2017 By Brendan Pierson Plaintiffs suing General Motors Co. over faulty ignition switches and other alleged vehicle defects have reached a $1 billion settlement...
Jury Clears GM of Liability in First Trial Over Updated Ignition Switch July 20, 2017 By Tina Bellon A federal jury in New York on Wednesday found General Motors was not to blame for a crash of an...
GM Is Winning Ignition-Switch Defect Trials August 29, 2016 By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Laurel Brubaker Calkins General Motors Co.’s victory in a Houston courtroom Thursday makes the carmaker three for three in trials related to an...
GM Does Not Have to Turn Over Privileged Ignition Switch Documents: Judge November 30, 2015 By Jonathan Stempel General Motors Co. and its law firm need not turn over privileged documents to drivers hoping to show that the...
GM to Pay $900M to Settle Criminal Probe Into Faulty Ignitions September 17, 2015 General Motors Co. agreed to pay $900 million and admit to misleading the government and the public about the safety...
Many Ignition Switch Claimants Excluded from GM Compensation Fund July 1, 2015 By Jeff Green and Margaret Cronin Fisk Ben Pillars always wondered why his wife crashed her Pontiac Grand Am in 2005, sending her into a coma from...
Judge Upholds GM Liability Shield from Some Ignition Claims April 16, 2015 By Jessica Dye and Nick Brown General Motors Co. will not have to face dozens of lawsuits accusing it of concealing an ignition-switch defect that led...