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 ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday dismissed a criminal case brought against General Motors in 2015 over the largest U.S. automaker's handling of an ignition-switch defect linked to ...

General Motors cannot avoid lawsuits from pre-bankruptcy ignition-switch defect victims, a federal court ruled Wednesday. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a bankruptcy judge's ...

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 ...

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 plaintiff's ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — General Motors won a victory in the first personal injury case to go to trial involving its faulty ignition switch amid charges of fraud. But the case never even got to a jury ...

General Motors was the subject of multiple government investigations and hundreds of civil lawsuits for taking more than a decade to recall 2.6 million cars with a deadly ignition switch defect. Under ...

Here are 10 key events in the recall saga: February 2002: GM switch engineer Ray DeGiorgio approves the design of a new small-car ignition switch, even though Delphi, the supplier, says the switch ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — General Motors knew of an issue with its ignition switch several years before it has previously acknowledged. The company said in a federal filing Wednesday that it discovered an ...

U.S. District Court Judge Jesse Furman has put a trial scheduled for January 2020 on hold after expressing doubt that the plaintiffs’ claims against General Motors can be successfully argued in court.

General Motors ignition assembly parts, including the parts affected under the recalls, being inspected, packaged and shipped Thursday, April 17, 2014 at the GM Customer Care & Aftersales Plant in ...

NEW YORK (AP) – 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 ...