General Motors' deadly ignition switch flaws emerged from an effort to improve its cars. As the company began developing new small cars in the late 1990s, it listened to customers who complained about ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co's ongoing safety crisis over deadly ignition switches deepened on Monday with the recall of 8.23 million mostly older cars linked by the U.S. automaker to three ...
More than 10 years after the defect was detected, General Motors issued recalls for several models suspected of having a faulty switch. The... In February, General Motors issued sweeping recalls for ...
DETROIT — Inside General Motors, they called it “the switch from hell.” The ignition switch on the steering column of the Chevrolet Cobalt and other small cars was so poorly designed that it easily ...
Kelly Ruddy was driving along Interstate 81 near Scranton, Pennsylvania when the ignition in her mother’s 2005 Chevy Cobalt switched off. Ruddy lost control of the car amid the failure. The resulting ...
On the fateful day of February 6 of 2014, all hell broke loose at the General Motors HQ. The General Motors ignition switch saga ensued and, for what it’s worth, it ended after the reporting of 274 ...
HOUSTON -- A Texas jury on Thursday found that a General Motors Co. ignition switch was not to blame for a 2011 accident that killed one driver and injured another, handing the carmaker its third ...
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DETROIT — Lawyers hired to compensate victims of General Motors’ faulty ignition switches have paid out $594.5 million to settle 399 eligible claims. The numbers were released Thursday in a final ...