All the headlines from our General Motors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 22 2015 // The U.S. auto safety watchdog is racked by internal problems that have prevented the agency from acting to protect the public from deadly auto defects, including faulty GM ignition switches, according to federal...
Apr 29 2015 // Even with historic levels of recalled vehicles in 2014, with General Motors Co. ignition switches and exploding Takata Corp. air bags leading to deaths, U.S. regulators say consumers don’t always get the...
Apr 16 2015 // General Motors Co. will not have to face dozens of lawsuits accusing it of concealing an ignition-switch defect that led to the recall of 2.6 million vehicles, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled on Wednesday.GM had argued it...
Mar 27 2015 // A bankruptcy judge told General Motors Co. six years ago it didn’t have to worry about lawsuits over cars made before its $49.5 billion government bailout.Last month, the same judge said he wasn’t so sure...
Mar 13 2015 // General Motors Co. settled a lawsuit over the death of a 29-year-old woman that helped trigger the recall of 2.59 million cars with faulty ignition switches, lawyers for her family said.Brooke Melton, 29, died in a March...
Mar 11 2015 // General Motors Co. investors urged a judge to let their lawsuit proceed against the automaker’s board that they say was asleep at the switch while the company produced cars with faulty ignition systems that led to...
Feb 24 2015 // The death toll from crashes involving General Motors cars with defective ignition switches has climbed to 57.The total is one more than last week. It was posted Feb. 23 on an Internet site by compensation expert Kenneth...
Feb 19 2015 // Huge jury verdicts against companies over fatal flaws in their products made a comeback last year, which may foretell more bad news for carmakers with defective parts.Absent for a decade, billion-dollar verdicts returned...
Feb 18 2015 // A judge said on Tuesday that if General Motors Co is found to have violated car owners’ constitutional rights by hiding ignition-switch defects during its bankruptcy, he would consider narrowing the legal protections...
Feb 10 2015 // Automakers are adding wireless technologies into vehicles without enough protection to keep hackers from interfering the operation of a car or stealing personal information, according to a report by U.S. Senator Edward...
Feb 5 2015 // General Motors Co., which has come under media, congressional and courtroom scrutiny over fatalities caused by flawed ignition switches, is defending 104 death and injury lawsuits brought by those who blame accidents on...
Feb 4 2015 // Progressive has partnered with OnStar Corp. to bring its usage-based insurance program, Snapshot, to OnStar customers.Starting this summer, buyers of 2016 and most 2015 General Motors vehicles will have the option to have...
Feb 2 2015 // General Motors Co.’s compensation chief for ignition-switch accidents paid 130 victims ahead of his Jan. 31 deadline, confirming 51 deaths to date, out of a total of 4,180 claims.Lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, speaking...
Jan 26 2015 // At least 45 people have died and 68 have been injured in crashes involving General Motors cars with defective ignition switches, according to Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who was hired by GM to compensate victims. As of...
Jan 22 2015 // The U.S. Treasury’s role in shielding General Motors Co. from car lawsuits after a 2009 bailout of the automaker isn’t confidential and should be made public, the Center for Auto Safety told a federal judge.The...
Dec 21 2014 // U.S. automobile recalls surpassed the 60 million mark for the first time in a single year, largely because of the rush to prevent more deaths from defective General Motors Co. ignition switches and Takata Corp. air...
Nov 28 2014 // General Motors Co. lost a bid to merge a California county prosecutor’s lawsuit over faulty ignition switches with customer cases pending in New York that make similar accusations about the carmaker’s conduct...
Nov 25 2014 // A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the death of her fiancé in a 2004 accident involving a since-recalled General Motors Saturn Ion won a reversal of her conviction.Candice Anderson, who was...
Nov 20 2014 // Arizona became the first state to join the wave of litigation against General Motors Co. over faulty ignition switches, claiming the company misled consumers about the safety of its cars and defrauded them of $3...
Nov 18 2014 // Confidential settlements over defective Takata Corp. air bags are sealing off relevant information that other victims could use to pursue injury claims.The accords make financial sense for the settling parties, but Takata...