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GM Offers Assistance in North Carolina Crash Investigation

General Motors has offered to help the North Carolina Highway Patrol in its investigation of a traffic accident that killed a high school teacher. The Fayetteville Observer reports troopers are considering a theory that the 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt driven by …

Lawyer Wants to Revive GM Ignition Switch Death Lawsuit

The Georgia attorney whose wrongful death suit against General Motors Co. helped trigger the recall of 2.59 million cars is seeking to revive that case, alleging the automaker fraudulently withheld information ahead of a settlement. Lance Cooper’s latest legal maneuver …

GM Recalled Cars Can Stay on Roads: U.S. Officials

The U.S. Department of Transportation has rebuffed a call by two Democratic senators to advise owners of 2.6 million recalled General Motors cars to stop driving them until they are repaired. In letters sent on Tuesday to Senators Edward Markey …

GM Takes Recall Fight to Familiar Turf in Bankruptcy Court

General Motors Co. is bringing its fight against owners of recalled cars to its former turf: the Manhattan bankruptcy court where the U.S. government financed the automaker’s turnaround five years ago. GM is facing 59 lawsuits by car owners demanding …

Senator Wants Compensation Fund for Recalled GM Cars

Pressure built on General Motors on Monday to take steps to get 1.6 million of its recalled cars off the road immediately and to establish a compensation fund for consumers affected by the company’s faulty ignition switches linked to 12 …

GM Excluded Saturn Ion Crash Deaths From Ignition Inquiry

General Motors excluded the Saturn Ion from a Feb. 13 recall for faulty ignition switches after engineers inexplicably failed to look at fatal crashes involving the compact car. The cars were recalled two weeks later, after another inquiry found four …

New GM CEO Begins Review of Recall Procedure

General Motors’ new CEO is starting an internal review of the company’s practices after an embarrassing recall of 1.6 million older small cars. CEO Mary Barra says in an e-mail to employees that the review will hold the company accountable …