March 18, 2016
The passenger in a 2007 Saturn Sky that was involved in an accident on an icy bridge struggled Friday to explain to a jury in the ongoing bellwether trial in the General Motors ignition-switch multidistrict litigation why there were almost no medical or work records reflecting the back problems he claims the crash caused him.
March 17, 2016
An expert testifying Thursday about cracks at General Motors that allowed a defective ignition design to take root in millions of cars scored a head-on point during cross-examination when he observed that a lawyer's questions were conceptually "siloed" just like the departments within the former number-one carmaker.
March 15, 2016
As GM refrained from urgently investigating reports of failing ignition switches, engineers deep within the organization were effectively prevented from sounding alarms by a policy that forbade terms like "problem," "bad" and "rolling sarcophagus," a former automotive industry engineer testified in a bellwether trial Tuesday.
March 14, 2016
Weak ignition switches that would sometimes stall General Motors cars mid-drive embodied the dysfunction of a "broken company," a Saturn driver's lawyer told a New York federal jury in opening arguments Monday for a bellwether trial that will present an important second test of the claims.
March 07, 2016
General Motors has asked the New York federal court overseeing the multidistrict litigation over its ignition switch defect to reject claims at the heart of the third bellwether trial in the case, which involve the death of a man who lost control of his 2006 Saturn Ion on a Pennsylvania highway.
March 03, 2016
The New York federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over General Motors' faulty ignition switches and controversial 2014 recall shrank claims Thursday against the automaker in the case at the heart of the second bellwether trial in the litigation, involving the crash of a 2007 Saturn Sky in Louisiana that took place just weeks before the recall.
March 03, 2016
Co-lead counsel in litigation against General Motors over its faulty ignition switches said Thursday that he supports a Maryland law seeking to end a rule allowing automakers to prevent dealers from sharing certain safety information with consumers.
March 02, 2016
The New York federal court overseeing the multidistrict litigation over General Motors' faulty ignition switches on Wednesday allowed the automaker to keep the seal on documents related to a $275 million settlement in September of more than 1,380 personal injury suits, finding that disclosing the documents could impact other settlement talks.
February 25, 2016
General Motors urged a New York federal judge Wednesday to allow it to admit 38 documents in its second ignition switch multidistrict litigation trial involving claims over injuries a driver and passenger sustained in a January 2014 accident, saying their refusal to agree to any stipulation regarding the documents is meritless.
February 25, 2016
General Motors LLC on Wednesday began chipping away at a massive proposed class action brought by drivers within the ignition switch multidistrict litigation who claim GM's cover-up of dozens of defects devalued their vehicles, telling a New York federal judge the allegations would impose "unprecedented additional liability."