Latest General Motors Headlines
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First GM Ignition Switch Trial Sidetracked by Check Fraud Allegation
Jan 20 2016 // An Oklahoma family’s eviction from their “dream house” following allegations of check fraud is threatening to derail the first trial over General Motors Co.’s deadly ignition-switch flaw. Robert...
GM Ignition Switch Trial Opens with Claim of Defect Coverup
Jan 14 2016 // General Motors Co. found a deadly flaw in its ignition switches but chose to keep customers and regulators in the dark for years, a lawyer for an injured postal carrier told jurors in the first trial over the defect. The...
First Trial Over Faulty GM Ignition Switch to Open Today
Jan 11 2016 // General Motors is set to go to trial Monday in a lawsuit over its 2014 recall of millions of vehicles for a faulty ignition switch linked to nearly 400 injuries and deaths. In the lawsuit, plaintiff Robert Scheuers claims...
GM Backs Remote Software Updates But Not for Critical Systems
Jan 7 2016 // General Motors Co. will not use ‘over-the-air’ upgrades, a way of remotely updating software on its vehicles, for safety-critical vehicle systems such as brakes, the automaker’s product development chief...
First ‘Bellwether’ GM Ignition Switch Trial Set to Open Jan. 11
Jan 4 2016 // A U.S. judge last Wednesday rejected General Motors Co.’s bid to dismiss the first so-called “bellwether” case over defective ignition switches in its vehicles, clearing the way for a Jan. 11 trial. U.S....
GM Settles Ignition Victims Claims for $600 Million
Dec 10 2015 // General Motors Co. paid less than $600 million to settle claims by victims of its flawed ignition switches, a slightly smaller sum than what the automaker told investors it expected to pay, after a 20-month-long...
GM Does Not Have to Turn Over Privileged Ignition Switch Documents: Judge
Nov 30 2015 // General Motors Co. and its law firm need not turn over privileged documents to drivers hoping to show that the automaker intended to commit a crime or fraud by concealing defective ignition switches in their vehicles, a...
Judge Rules Punitive Damages Possible for GM in Ignition Case
Nov 10 2015 // General Motors Co. may be liable for punitive damages in lawsuits it faces over an ignition switch problem that prompted the recall of millions of vehicles last year, a U.S. judge said on Monday. The decision from U.S....
Colorado Woman Trapped for Days After Crash Sues G.M.
Nov 2 2015 // A woman who was trapped in her car for nearly a week after crashing off a Colorado highway is suing General Motors over alleged defects in her 2009 Chevy Malibu. The Denver Post reported the lawsuit filed last month by...
Atlanta-Based AssureSign Adds George as GM of Global Insurance Solutions
Sep 24 2015 // Dianna George Electronic signature software provider, AssureSign, has hired Dianna George to the newly-created position of general manager of Global Insurance Solutions. In her role, George will direct operations and...
Why No GM Employees Have Been Prosecuted for Faulty Ignitions
Sep 21 2015 // The chief U.S. prosecutor in Manhattan blamed gaps in federal law and “siloing” within General Motors Co. for the failure so far to charge any individual employees who may be responsible for faulty ignition...
GM Settles Shareholder Suit But Ignition Switch Exposure Not Over
Sep 17 2015 // General Motors Co.’s potential liability over flawed ignition switches isn’t over yet, and billions of dollars remain at stake. GM agreed Thursday to pay $575 million to end a shareholder suit tied to the...
GM to Pay $900M to Settle Criminal Probe Into Faulty Ignitions
Sep 17 2015 // General Motors Co. agreed to pay $900 million and admit to misleading the government and the public about the safety of its vehicles to end a U.S. criminal investigation into its handling of defective ignition switches...
Drivers Convicted, Jailed for Crashes Now Blamed on Car Defects
Sep 2 2015 // Lakisha Ward-Green spent three months in jail after she lost control of her Chevrolet Cobalt, killing her teenage passenger. Last week, a Pennsylvania judge, citing “newly discovered evidence” erased her guilty...
Shopping, Banking from Car Dashboards Opens Door to Identity Theft
Sep 1 2015 // Hackers can already take control of a car. And as vehicles become rolling shopping malls, cybercriminals will have an opportunity to snatch your identity, too. Eager for a cut of drivers’ purchases of fast food, gas...
Hacker Claims to Open GM’s OnStar App, Start Engine Remotely
Jul 31 2015 // A researcher is advising drivers not to use a mobile app for General Motors Co.’s OnStar vehicle communications system, saying hackers can exploit a security flaw in the product to unlock cars and start engines...
Judge Blocks Access to Government Witnesses in GM Lost Value Suit
Jul 17 2015 // General Motors Co. customers suing over faulty ignition switches lost their bid for access to witnesses interviewed by the government in a probe of the automaker, a U.S. judge said. The customers, who are demanding as much...
Many Ignition Switch Claimants Excluded from GM Compensation Fund
Jul 1 2015 // Ben Pillars always wondered why his wife crashed her Pontiac Grand Am in 2005, sending her into a coma from which she never recovered. Then last year, General Motors Co. recalled the car for a faulty ignition switch and...
GM Directors Off the Hook; Court Nixes Investors’ Lawsuit Over Ignition Switch
Jun 30 2015 // General Motors Co. directors don’t have to face investors’ allegations that lax supervision allowed the company to make cars with faulty ignition systems blamed for more than 100 people their lives. GM’s...
Report Calls for Overhaul of U.S. Auto Safety Agency
Jun 22 2015 // The U.S. auto safety watchdog is racked by internal problems that have prevented the agency from acting to protect the public from deadly auto defects, including faulty GM ignition switches, according to federal...
