General Motors is protected from paying punitive damages related to vehicle defects linked to more than 100 deaths. A U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York ruled Tuesday that GM is ...

A lawsuit filed against General Motors claiming its faulty ignition switch was responsible for a crash involving a 2007 Saturn Ion has been thrown out by the judge presiding over the case. The ...

DETROIT — General Motors will pay $120 million to settle claims from dozens of states in its massive ignition switch defect scandal. The settlement comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier ...

General Motors failed to designate a flawed ignition switch linked to multiple deaths as a safety concern, chief executive Mary Barra told jurors at a Texas trial. GM engineers in 2004 and 2005 ...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has overturned a previous decision of the US Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan regarding the GM ignition switch recall. Follow us: We are writing ...

General Motors has scored two victories in its series of bellwether trials surrounding defective ignition switches in past vehicles. The first trial was thrown out due to perjury, and the second, most ...

Dionne Spain crashed a Saturn on the New Orleans bridge a few years ago, so she sued General Motors, claiming the wreck was the fault of The General's faulty ignition switches. This week, in the ...

NEW YORK — A trial that was supposed to help settle hundreds of lawsuits stemming from General Motors’ faulty ignition switches abruptly ended Friday, a day after the judge raised questions about the ...

The first of potentially many trials against General Motors over its faulty ignition switches was dismissed Friday following allegations the plaintiff lied on the stand. Lawyers for both plaintiff ...

The first federal trial over General Motors' massive ignition switch recall came to an early end on Friday, as the parties said the case has been dismissed. According to a filing in Manhattan federal ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Oklahoma man suing General Motors in the first trial in federal litigation over its massive engine switch recall has hired a criminal defense attorney after the carmaker ...