January 22, 2016
Moments after a jury was assembled in the first bellwether trial in the General Motors ignition switch litigation, a real estate agent in Oklahoma who knew the injured man in the case left a harried voice message for GM that would dramatically alter the course of the trial: "I've got some information you really need to hear," it said.
January 22, 2016
The first bellwether trial in the General Motors ignition switch litigation met an untimely end Friday, with the Oklahoma man blaming the automaker for his Saturn Ion crash withdrawing his case amid accusations by GM that the plaintiff lied on the witness stand about how he lost a new house he'd tried to purchase after the accident.
January 21, 2016
The New York federal judge in the first bellwether trial over General Motors' ignition switches on Thursday criticized the lead plaintiff's attorneys in the case for missing vital clues that their client may have lied that his Saturn Ion crash led to his eviction from a new house, and urged them to consider abandoning the trial.
January 21, 2016
An accident reconstruction engineer backing an Oklahoma man's account of his 2014 crash in a Saturn Ion told a New York federal jury Wednesday that the accident involved drastic velocity changes to the vehicle associated with the kind of impacts that would have triggered its air bag.
January 20, 2016
A New York federal judge Tuesday granted General Motors Co.'s objection to an Oklahoma driver's alleged use of its former general counsel's testimony to sidestep earlier orders regarding admissible evidence in the motorist's ongoing ignition switch trial.
January 20, 2016
The Oklahoma plaintiff in the ongoing bellwether trial in the General Motors ignition switch litigation and his wife have both retained prominent white collar defense attorneys in the wake of bombshell allegations by the automaker that they have falsely testified that his Saturn Ion crash led to their failed home purchase.
January 19, 2016
General Motors launched explosive allegations against an Oklahoma man in the ongoing trial over his Saturn Ion crash, claiming in a filing unsealed Tuesday that he lied to jurors about the circumstances behind his failed home purchase and that new evidence reveals he actually lost the house after falsifying finances.
January 14, 2016
The Oklahoma man alleging he suffered "severe" neck and back injuries from his 2014 accident in a Saturn Ion took the witness stand Thursday in his ongoing ignition switch trial against General Motors and acknowledged his more than 25-year history of sequential spinal problems ever since an industrial accident he experienced in 1988.
January 13, 2016
An automotive crash sensor technology expert who worked for ignition switch supplier Delphi when it was still a division of General Motors told a New York jury Wednesday that the accident that injured an Oklahoma man generated enough impact that it should have triggered his 2003 Saturn Ion's air bag and seat belt safety technologies.
January 12, 2016
General Motors told jurors Tuesday that the crash of a U.S. Postal Service mailman's 2003 Saturn Ion had nothing to do with the ignition switch scandal that looms over the multidistrict litigation, arguing that he has not shown that his key actually jostled out of place during his accident.