Latest General Motors Headlines
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Researchers Using Crash Data from OnStar to Develop Safer Vehicles
Oct 1 2007 // General Motors Corp. and the University of Michigan Medical School are working on a new study that will try to guide emergency workers and doctors who respond to car accidents — and develop safer vehicles along the...
Mich. Automakers Offer More Safety, Security and Navigation Gizmos
Jul 18 2007 // As automakers race to inject as many safety, security, navigation and entertainment features as possible into their vehicles, they ought to keep Mark Evangelista in mind. The 45-year-old owner of a suburban Detroit...
General Motors Cars Record Highest, Lowest Death Rates
Apr 20 2007 // General Motors Corp. vehicles had the highest and lowest driver death rates from 2002 through 2005, according to a study being released Thursday by the insurance industry. Two-door, two-wheel drive Chevrolet Blazers built...
Mich. General Motors Unveils New Crash Testing Center for Rollovers
Dec 6 2006 // General Motors Corp. unveiled a new $10 million crash test facility this week that will help the automaker study rollover crashes. The Detroit-based company also said that by 2012 it will make rollover-enabled air bags a...
Developer Alleges Conseco Rigged Sale of N.Y. Building
Aug 15 2006 // Billionaire real-estate developer Sheldon H. Solow filed a federal lawsuit last week against insurer Conseco Inc. and one of its subsidiaries, alleging an auction to sell the General Motors Building in Manhattan in 2003...
GM to Close Portuguese Factory by End of 2006; 1,200 Lost Jobs Possible
Jul 12 2006 // GM is to close its factory in Portugal this year and move production of its Combo vehicle to its factory in Zaragoza, Spain, the company’s Europe vice president said July 11. The move means 1,200 lost jobs at the...
Business Moves
Jun 5 2006 // General Motors, Shanghai General Motors Corp. received approval to open an office in Shanghai as a step toward beginning insurance operations in China. Detroit-based GM said that Motors Insurance Corp., part of the...
Collins Opens Seattle Office, Smith Named Vice President/GM
May 31 2006 // Collins, a reinsurance brokers has opened a new Seattle office “to provide a much-needed alternative to address the reinsurance needs of insurers in the Pacific Northwest,” Bob Kimmel, senior vice president and...
General Motors Gets Okay to Open Insurance Office in Shanghai
May 18 2006 // General Motors Corp. announced this week that it has received Chinese approval to open an office in Shanghai as a step toward beginning insurance operations in China. Detroit-based GM said that Motors Insurance Corp., part...
HCC Insurance Holdings to Acquire GM’s Life Insurer
Oct 12 2005 // HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. has agreed to acquire MIC Life Insurance Corporation from Motors Insurance Corporation, a subsidiary of GMAC Insurance Holdings Inc., for an undisclosed consideration. MIC Life is currently...
RTW Appoints Dye as GM for Mich., Colo. Operations
Jun 28 2004 // Minneapolis-based workers’ compensation insurer and third-party administrator RTW Inc. has appointed Glen Dye as general manager for the company’s Michigan and Colorado operations. Dye previously served with...
GM TRUCKS TOP TEXAS’ STOLEN VEHICLES LIST:
Jun 21 2004 // Stressing that auto theft worries increase during summer, the Texas Department of Public Safety released its annual list of the most stolen vehicles. General Motors pickups top the list. Auto thieves don’t take a...
GM Trucks Top Texas DPS’ Most Stolen Vehicles List
Jun 3 2004 // Stressing that auto theft worries increase during summer, the Texas Department of Public Safety released its annual list of the most stolen vehicles. General Motors trucks came out on top. Auto thieves don’t take a...
Conseco and Trump Reach Agreement on GM Building
Jun 16 2003 // Conseco, Inc. and NYC developer Donald J. Trump announced that they have reached an agreement on a long-standing dispute over control and distribution of profits at the General Motors Building located on Fifth Avenue,...
East West Ins Agency Announces New SVP & GM
Jan 17 2003 // East West Bancorp announced the executive appointment of Randall P. Yang to head it’s insurance subsidiary East West Insurance Agency, a full service provider of commercial and personal insurance products and...
Trump Files $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Conseco Over GM Building Sale
Feb 8 2002 // Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against Conseco, charging that the insurer breached an agreement with Manhattan’s reigning real estate king to sell him its half interest in the General Motors building. Trump is...
GM Moves Into Banking Sector
Apr 21 2000 // An application by General Motors to move into banking by setting up a federal thrift was approved Thursday by U.S. regulators. The world’s largest automaker already had a solid presence in financial services through...
