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

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 ...

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 ...

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DETROIT - A federal appeals court ruling that General Motors (GM) can't use its 2009 bankruptcy to fend off lawsuits over faulty and dangerous ignition switches exposes the automaker to billions in ...

DETROIT - A federal bankruptcy judge has ruled that people suing General Motors (GM) over faulty ignition switches can seek punitive damages that could cost the company millions of dollars or more.

General Motors offered nearly $595 million to surviving families of those killed and to 275 people injured in crashes that an independent compensation fund determined were caused by defective ignition ...

General Motors agreed Thursday to pay the federal government $900 million and appoint an independent monitor to oversee safety issues in a settlement with the Justice Department over the carmaker's ...

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 ...