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GM Settles Third Ignition Switch Bellwether Lawsuit
General Motors Co. has agreed to settle a test-case lawsuit involving a fatality linked to one of its defective ignition switches, thereby avoiding a jury trial.
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General Motors Co. has agreed to settle a test-case lawsuit involving a fatality linked to one of its defective ignition switches, thereby avoiding a jury trial.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The case involved a crash in December 2013 in which the driver of a 2006 model Saturn Ion sport sedan was killed. The car was among 2.6 million vehicles GM recalled three months later to replace ignition switches that can unexpectedly turn off the engine, power steering, power brakes and airbags.
The case is among six so-called bellwether lawsuits to be tried this year in the same federal court in New York City. The first case was dismissed, and GM won the second. The test cases are intended to help guide the settlement of hundreds of GM ignition-switch lawsuits that have been consolidated in the Manhattan court.
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