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General Motors Sued over Fire Causing $450K in Damage to Pennsylvania Homes
Dec 30 2016 // General Motors has been sued over a 2014 car fire that caused more than $450,000 in damage to two central Pennsylvania homes. Pennlive.com reports that Erie Insurance Exchange and four of its policy holders claim the blaze...
How GM’s ‘Super Cruise’ Self-Driving Car Is Evolving
Dec 2 2016 // General Motors Co.’s semi-autonomous “Super Cruise” system will allow drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel for extended periods, but will stop the vehicle automatically if drivers are not...
Takata Suitors Weigh GM Bankruptcy Liability Ruling
Nov 8 2016 // As auto supplier Takata Corp. prepares for a possible U.S. bankruptcy filing, potential bidders are poring over a recent U.S. court ruling that could expose a buyer to liability for the company’s defective air bags,...
GM Settles Bellwether Ignition Switch Cases Before Trial
Sep 7 2016 // General Motors Co. settled the final two bellwether cases over ignition switch flaws scheduled for trial in federal court in New York, averting one set to begin next week. Terms of the settlements are confidential,...
GM Is Winning Ignition-Switch Defect Trials
Aug 29 2016 // General Motors Co.’s victory in a Houston courtroom Thursday makes the carmaker three for three in trials related to an ignition-switch defect, but its legal entanglements may stretch on for years. At least a dozen...
Wrong Key Fails to Derail Texas GM Ignition Suit
Aug 24 2016 // General Motors LLC failed to derail a Texas family’s claim for damages over a car crash blamed on a faulty ignition-switch after jurors were shown the wrong car key last week. GM claimed Zachary Stevens’ family...
GM Ignition-Switch Lawsuit Dismissed by Texas Judge
Aug 16 2016 // A Texas judge has thrown out a lawsuit against General Motors from a woman who blamed a 2012 car crash on a faulty ignition switch that later prompted the company to recall 2.6 million vehicles. The Aug. 13 order from...
CEO Tells Jury GM Failed to Diagnose Ignition Switch as Safety Defect
Aug 16 2016 // General Motors Co. failed to designate a flawed ignition switch linked to multiple deaths and injuries as a safety concern, Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra told jurors at a Texas trial. GM engineers in 2004 and 2005...
Court Removes GM Bankruptcy Shield on Ignition Switch Claims
Jul 14 2016 // General Motors’ 2009 bankruptcy does not shield it from lawsuits over a deadly ignition-switch defect that led to criminal charges against the automaker and prompted the recall of 2.6 million vehicles in 2014, a...
Talking Cadillac Tries to Be Heard Over Silicon Valley on Airwaves
Jun 20 2016 // General Motors Co. is rolling out a sedan laden with gadgets that track other cars on the road and can automatically brake to avoid collisions, fulfilling a safety vision decades in the making. Yet the 2017 Cadillac CTS...
GM CEO Says Keep Steering Wheels, Brakes in Self-Driving Cars
Jun 9 2016 // General Motors Co. Chief Executive Mary Barra on Tuesday said she believes self-driving vehicles should keep steering wheels, brake pedals and accelerators in them as the technology develops. “We think that having...
California Uber and Lyft Car Rental Decision Delayed
Apr 25 2016 // The first major product of General Motors Co.’s $500 million investment in Lyft Inc. was a short-term car-rental program. Last month, the companies began leasing Chevrolets in Chicago for up to eight weeks as part of...
GM Wins Second ‘Bellwether’ Ignition Switch Trial
Mar 31 2016 // General Motors Co. won its second straight trial against drivers who blamed car wrecks on faulty ignition switches, boosting the company’s outlook for resolving hundreds of similar cases on more favorable terms. The...
Ignition Switch Plaintiffs Ask Court to Toss GM Liability Shield Gained in Bankruptcy
Mar 16 2016 // Attorneys for customers suing General Motors Co. over faulty ignition switches urged a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to throw out bankruptcy court rulings that they say shield the company from lawsuits potentially worth...
GM Tells Ignition Switch Jury: ‘Sometimes Accidents Just Happen’
Mar 15 2016 // “Sometimes, accidents just happen,” a lawyer for General Motors Co. told a U.S. jury in defense of the carmaker at a test trial over a deadly flaw in millions of ignition switches. The accident was one of...
Thinking Outside the Glove Box to Get Recalled Autos Repaired
Mar 8 2016 // The 63,000 spectators crowded in late January inside Atlanta’s Georgia Dome for a battle of college marching bands didn’t know they’d also be schooled in auto safety. Between the Lincoln University Orange...
Attorney Moves to Undo GM Ignition Switch Settlement
Feb 3 2016 // General Motors Co. has asked a judge to reject efforts by a lawyer who first publicly exposed a faulty ignition switch in GM vehicles to undo a settlement fund resolving 1,380 death and injury lawsuits. In a separate...
GM Avoids Showdown in First Ignition Trial But Faces Many More Ahead
Jan 25 2016 // General Motors Co. just watched the first big court case over an admitted deadly defect in its cars melt down as an Oklahoma postman who claimed GM ruined his life dropped his suit, accused of lying. The case was the...
Plaintiff in First ‘Bellwether’ GM Ignition Switch Trial Drops Case
Jan 22 2016 // The Oklahoma mail carrier at the center of the first trial over General Motors Co.’s deadly ignition-switch defect is dropping his claims after being accused of lying to the court. Robert Scheuer, 49, will walk away...
Judge Hits Plaintffs’ Lawyers in GM Ignition Switch Trial
Jan 22 2016 // General Motors Co. got a boost in the first trial over a deadly ignition-switch defect as a judge slammed plaintiffs’ lawyers for failing to vet their client, an Oklahoma mail carrier accused by the carmaker of lying...
