More than seven years before General Motors Co. began the biggest wave of auto recalls in history, an investigator for Vanguard Car Rental USA Inc. contacted the carmaker about a fatal rollover crash in California. A driver in a new …
A Texas lawyer has filed a lawsuit against General Motors on behalf of 658 people who were injured or killed in crashes allegedly caused by faulty ignition switches. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in New …
Earlier this year, General Motors Co. hired Kenneth Feinberg, a victim compensation expert, to oversee payment to those injured in crashes caused by faulty ignition switches in GM cars. GM says it’s trying to do the right thing by making …
The ignition switch recalls now engulfing General Motors and Chrysler are raising new questions about the safety of the parts across the American auto industry. GM’s safety crisis deepened dramatically Monday when the automaker added 8.2 million vehicles in North …
General Motors Co. will spend whatever it takes to compensate victims of accidents in Cobalts, Ions and other cars with faulty ignition switches, said Ken Feinberg, the lawyer hired to make the payments. Feinberg will take claims from Aug. 1 …
Ignition switches have presented General Motors with significant safety issues of late. Here are details of the switch problems by the numbers: – 2.6 million: The number of older small cars that GM recalled earlier this year to fix faulty …
General Motors on Monday announced that it would recall about 3.4 million older large cars for an ignition problem. Plus, the company recalled another 166,000 cars and trucks in five other recalls for a series of other problems. The recalls …
Kenneth Feinberg, who is in charge of the General Motors Co. fund to compensate victims for ignition flaws linked to at least 13 deaths, said he will establish a program by month’s end to determine payments. “It’s going very well,” …
Plaintiffs’ lawyers have begun scouring General Motors Co’s report on its handling of faulty ignition switches that have been tied to 13 deaths and say they are finding details that could bolster their negligence cases. On Thursday, GM released the …
General Motors says it will launch a compensation program for crash victims or their families as a result of faulty ignition switches linked to at least 13 deaths that prompted a recall of 2.6 million cars. The company said Thursday …