Here’s an unsettling fact about cars equipped with air bags: they don’t always deploy when drivers – or regulators – expect them to. Thirteen people have died in crashes involving older GM cars with defective ignition switches. In each of …
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 …
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 …
Two Democratic U.S. senators on Monday called on the Department of Transportation to urge owners of 2.6 million recalled General Motors cars to stop driving them until they are repaired, which could take months as dealerships wait for replacement ignition …
The families of those who died in General Motors cars with defective ignition switches want prosecutors to go after GM insiders responsible for letting the problems fester for more than a decade – and perhaps for covering them up. “The …
General Motors has hired attorney Kenneth Feinberg to advise it on its recall of small cars, but says his hiring doesn’t necessarily mean it will establish a fund for victims. GM CEO Mary Barra announced Feinberg’s hiring during a House …
The U.S. office responsible for monitoring safety defects in cars has had its budget stagnate and its staff cut by one-fifth from highs more than a decade ago, when Congress tried to strengthen it. While no one has connected cuts …
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 …
General Motors is recalling more than 1.5 million vehicles, including SUVs, vans and Cadillacs, for defective air bags and other problems. The new recalls come as GM faces multiple investigations over its handling of a recall of more than 1.6 …
Six days after General Motors Co. recalled almost 800,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and Pontiac G5s for a defect that could cause surprise engine shutdowns, lawyer Lance Cooper, a solo practitioner in Georgia, sent government regulators a letter: There are more faulty …