Latest General Motors Headlines
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Ohio May Force GM to Repay $60M in Incentives after Plant Shut Down
Jun 19 2020 // Ohio officials are considering forcing General Motors to repay $60 million in public incentives because of its decision to close a massive assembly plant near Youngstown. At issue is an economic development deal from more...
Court Approves GM’s $120M Ignition Switch Lost Value Claims Settlement with Owners
Apr 24 2020 // General Motors Co. on Thursday won preliminary U.S. court approval of a $120 million settlement with owners who said defective ignition switches caused their vehicles to lose value. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in...
GM Settles Faulty Ignition Switch Cases for $120 Million
Mar 30 2020 // General Motors Co. has reached a $120 million settlement with owners who claimed that their vehicles lost value because of defective ignition switches, which have been linked to 124 deaths. The preliminary settlement was...
Reuters Report: How Secrecy in Courts Stymies Safety Regulators
Jan 17 2020 // LEBANON, Ohio — Something wasn’t right with the Rhino. Reports started trickling in to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in 2005 of people being killed or injured in the Yamaha Motor Co. off-road...
How Big Tech Hopes to Turn Cars into Connected Revenue Machines
Jan 9 2020 // Technology companies transformed smartphones and televisions into continuous fountains of revenue. Now, big tech wants to work with automakers to do the same thing for your car. With the widespread rollout of autonomous...
Reuters Report: How Plaintiff Lawyers Help Corporate America Keep Its Secrets
Nov 8 2019 // Paula Lawlor was sifting through piles of internal General Motors Co. documents in a hotel room outside of Los Angeles when she hit pay dirt: Company records showing that GM knew for years that stronger roofs on its...
Automakers Call for Urgency in Advancing U.S. Rules for Self-Driving Vehicles
Aug 30 2019 // Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc, on Thursday urged the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to “promptly” remove regulatory barriers for cars without steering...
Congress Looks to Jump Start Stalled Driverless Vehicle Bill
Jul 31 2019 // Two key committees in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday said they will revive efforts to pass long-stalled legislation to speed the adoption of self-driving cars. The House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Commerce...
AGCS Offers Crisis Management Response Services with Its Pollution Liability Cover
May 22 2019 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) announced it is offering expanded emergency response services as part of its Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL) coverage when pollution and/or contamination events...
U.S. Safety Agency Weighs Bids for Putting Automated Vehicles on Roads
Mar 20 2019 // The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it was seeking public comment on General Motors’ 15-month-old petition seeking approval to deploy a limited number vehicles on U.S. roads without...
Man Steals Cement Truck, Hits Vehicles at Michigan GM Facility
Feb 8 2019 // Authorities say a person is in custody after driving a stolen cement truck through a locked gate at a General Motors facility in mid-Michigan and hitting several parked vehicles. The Eaton County sheriff’s office...
Man Dies During Demolition Work at Old Delaware GM Plant
Jan 14 2019 // Delaware authorities say a demolition company leader died while supervising work at an old automobile plant. Delaware State Police said the death occurred Friday afternoon at the former General Motors plant in Wilmington,...
In Lawsuit, Union Says GM Should Replace Temps With Laid-Off Workers
Jan 8 2019 // The United Auto Workers union is accusing General Motors of violating a national contract by using temporary workers instead of employing full-timers who were laid off from its factories. The union filed a federal lawsuit...
Trial Lawyers Cite ‘Worst Corporate Conduct’ of 2018
Dec 31 2018 // Not surprisingly, the American Association for Justice—representing the country’s trial lawyers– takes a very different view of the civil justice system than does the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for Legal...
GM Hitting Bumps on $5 Billion Road to Driverless Cars by 2019
Oct 25 2018 // It’s one of the biggest bets going in the world of cars. Since May, General Motors Co. and its Cruise self-driving car unit have landed $5 billion in investment commitments from Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. and...
Glen Mulready, Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner
Oct 18 2018 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Election 2018 The office of the insurance commissioner in Oklahoma is an elected position. The current commissioner, John D. Doak, is term limited and cannot run again; his successor will be...
Trump Administration Moves to Speed Up Fully Autonomous Vehicles
Oct 5 2018 // The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to revise safety rules that bar fully self-driving cars from the roads without equipment such as steering wheels, pedals and mirrors, according to a document made public...
Glen Mulready, Republican Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner
Oct 1 2018 // Glen Mulready has 35 years of experience in the insurance industry and is a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He previously served as the House insurance committee chair and is now the floor leader...
Government Ends Criminal Case Over GM Handling of Ignition Switch Defect
Sep 20 2018 // A federal judge in New York on Wednesday dismissed a criminal case brought against General Motors Co. in 2015 over the largest U.S. automaker’s handling of an ignition-switch defect linked to 124 deaths. U.S....
Missouri’s GM Peters Agency Joins Agency Partnership, CAA
Jun 19 2018 // Combined Agents of America (CAA) is expanding its presence in Missouri with the addition of GM Peters Agency, based in Liberty, Missouri. Current owners Shane Davolt and Peggy Marrs acquired the agency in 1999, however, GM...
