Sentences with phrase «ignition switch defect»

Because it failed to report information about the recent ignition switch defect in a timely manner to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), General Motors will pay a $ 35 million fine and participate in a review of its safety processes and policies to avoid situations like this in the future.
Phil LeBeau tells us the details of the deal that General Motors made with the Department of Justice over its handling of those deadly ignition switch defects.
Feinberg, who most recently advised on compensation issues related to the Boston Marathon bombing, was hired by GM as a consultant to advise the automaker how to respond to families of accident victims whose vehicles are being recalled for possible ignition switch defects.
Finally, there is a category for victims who sustained more minor injuries in crashes related to cars with the GM ignition switch defect.
If you paid attention to General Motors CEO Mary Barra's apologies, you would think GM feels remorseful and responsible for manufacturing cars containing ignition switch defects that are associated with 13 deaths.
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Per federal law, all auto manufacturers must notify NHTSA within five days of finding a safety - related defect, and NHTSA's timeliness investigation into the ignition switch defect determined that GM did not do so in this case.
GM then announced in February 2014 that it would recall certain vehicles for the ignition switch defect, but had failed to notify NHTSA of this defect when the vehicles were previously investigated.
Barra claims to have first become aware of the ignition switch defect in December, before she rose to CEO in January.
Steven J. Boyajian was quoted in Law360 on July 15, 2016, in an article that discusses the Second Circuit's decision to strike down, in part, a prior bankruptcy court decision that protected General Motors from liability related to ignition switch defects.
In addition to all of the troubles that General Motors has regarding the ignition switch defect, GM has recalled the 2013 Cadillac SRX due to the acceleration issue.
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