General Motors Settles Case That Triggered Ignition-Switch Recall – Wall Street Journal By Jeff Bennett and Mike Spector The settlement ends what could have been embarrassing litigation for GM as it works to put the ignition-switch recall that started early

General Motors Settles Wrongful-Death Suit Again – New York Times By Bill Vlasic A lawyer for the victim’s parents, Ken and Beth Melton, said one aim of the second suit was to force G.M. to admit that it had concealed

Melton family settles case against GM over faulty ignition switch – Atlanta Business Chronicle By Ellie Hensley The Meltons exposed an ignition switch defect that GM (NYSE: GM) failed to warn customers about or fix, and it resulted in the

GM settles second ignition-switch lawsuit with parents of Georgia victim – Automotive News By Nick Bunkley The terms of the new settlement are confidential, the lawyers said. Attorney Ken Feinberg, whom GM hired to run its compensation fund for crash

GM Settles Major Ignition Case in Cobb County – Daily Report By Kathy Tucker The lawsuit over the 2010 death of Brooke Melton, 29, ultimately identified an ignition defect that caused cars to stall at highway speeds, leading to recalls

GM settles early ignition switch suit – The Detroit News By Michael Wayland General Motors Co. has settled a lawsuit over the death of a 29-year-old woman that helped trigger the recall of 2.59 million cars because of faulty ignition switches.

GM settles landmark suit over deadly ignition switches – USA Today By James R. Healey The Meltons were eligible to apply to the fund, but chose instead to sue GM again, claiming it had defrauded them in the original settlement,

GM Settles Death Lawsuit That Spurred Millions of Recalls – Bloomberg Business By Margaret Cronin Fisk “The fact that Mr. and Mrs. Melton would be willing to take on a corporate giant and end up being directly responsible for alerting both

Lawsuit That Showed GM Hid Ignition Switch Problem Settled – ABC News By Tom Krisher A Georgia lawsuit that helped expose General Motors‘ failure to disclose a deadly defect in small-car ignition switches has been settled out of court for

GM settles high-profile ignition-switch case with Georgia family – Rueters By Joseph White The Melton family settled a civil action against GM for $5 million in September 2013. But last year, the family filed a second lawsuit in Georgia state

GM settles again in Georgia death case – Detroit Free Press By Greg Gardener General Motors has settled a lawsuit filed by the parents of Brooke Melton, a Georgia pediatric nurse, who died in a March 2010 crash involving her

GM Settles Second Ignition Suit Over Death of Brooke Melton in Cobalt Crash -NBC News “One of the most important issues for the Meltons was accountability. This is a company that concealed this defect for years. They wanted to hold