GM Tells Ignition Switch Jury: ‘Sometimes Accidents Just Happen’ March 15, 2016 By Erik Larson “Sometimes, accidents just happen,” a lawyer for General Motors Co. told a U.S. jury in defense of the carmaker at...
GM Avoids Showdown in First Ignition Trial But Faces Many More Ahead January 25, 2016 By Erik Larson and Margaret Cronin Fisk General Motors Co. just watched the first big court case over an admitted deadly defect in its cars melt down...
Plaintiff in First ‘Bellwether’ GM Ignition Switch Trial Drops Case January 22, 2016 By Erik Larson and Sophia Pearson The Oklahoma mail carrier at the center of the first trial over General Motors Co.’s deadly ignition-switch defect is dropping...
Judge Hits Plaintffs’ Lawyers in GM Ignition Switch Trial January 22, 2016 By Erik Larson General Motors Co. got a boost in the first trial over a deadly ignition-switch defect as a judge slammed plaintiffs’...
First GM Ignition Switch Trial Sidetracked by Check Fraud Allegation January 20, 2016 By Erik Larson An Oklahoma family’s eviction from their “dream house” following allegations of check fraud is threatening to derail the first trial...
GM Ignition Switch Trial Opens with Claim of Defect Coverup January 14, 2016 By Erik Larson and Margaret Cronin Fisk General Motors Co. found a deadly flaw in its ignition switches but chose to keep customers and regulators in the...
GM Settles Shareholder Suit But Ignition Switch Exposure Not Over September 17, 2015 By Bob Van Voris, Erik Larson and Patricia Hurtado General Motors Co.’s potential liability over flawed ignition switches isn’t over yet, and billions of dollars remain at stake. GM...
AIG’s Lavastone in Dispute with Life Settlements Firm Coventry August 28, 2015 By Erik Larson and Patricia Hurtado An American International Group Inc. unit and Coventry First LLC began a trial in a dispute over bets in the...
Lawsuit Presses Costco Liability for Thailand Fishing’s Slave Labor August 20, 2015 By Erik Larson Costco Wholesale Corp. was sued for selling farmed shrimp from Thailand, where slave labor and human trafficking in the fishing...
Suit Charges Wal-Mart with Discrimination Against Gay Employees Over Health Benefits July 15, 2015 By Erik Larson Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was accused of discriminating against gay employees in a lawsuit that pits the biggest U.S. retailer against...