GM Recall Doubled as Georgia Lawyer Pushed U.S. Regulators – Bloomberg
To date, Cooper may have dug the deepest.
“He single-handedly set the stage for this recall,” said Sean Kane, an auto-safety analyst who credits Cooper for being the first to create a public record of what GM did with the ignition switch. Kane, the president of Rehoboth, Massachusetts-based Safety Research & Strategies Inc., has worked with plaintiffs’ lawyers on suits involving sport-utility vehicle rollovers, tire recalls and unintended acceleration in some Toyota Motor Corp. models. He consulted on Cooper’s suit against GM.
“But for the things he has done, this thing doesn’t happen,” Kane said.