Eligible Death Claims on GM Ignition Switch Rise to 24

General Motors Co. says it has now received 1,130 claims of injury or death related to the 2.6 million faulty ignition switches it recalled in February. The total is up 30% from a week earlier.

A fund headed by compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg has so far decided that 24 death and 16 injury claims are eligible for payments.

Qualified death claims, which will receive at least $1 million from the fund, rose by one from a week ago. The fund, which has no cap on payments made, will accept applications through the end of this year.