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GM hasn’t recalled all defective cars, lawsuits allege – Automotive News By Nick Bunkley The lawsuit was filed jointly by 12 law firms, including one that previously reached a settlement with GM in the case of a Georgia woman who died in a 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt crash. The lawyer in that case, Lance Cooper, forced…

General Motors Misled Grieving Families on a Lethal Flaw – New York Times By Hilary Stout, Bill Vlasic, Danielle Ivory and Rebecca R. Ruiz Read the full story here. 

Litigation Mounting Over Alleged GM Ignition Defect – The Daily Report – National Law Journal By Amanda Bronstad The class action claims that GM’s recall is insufficient because the entire key system should have been redesigned. Levitt, who leads the firm’s consumer practice out of Chicago, has teamed up with several other attorneys, including Lance…

Suit alleges second ignition defect in GM recall – USA Today By Chris Woodyard Read the full story here.

Marietta lawyer plays key role in GM recall – Atlanta Journal Constitution By Patrick G. Lee and Jeff Plungis 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…

Georgia Lawyer Dug Deep to Bring Case Against General Motors – Insurance Journal By Patrick G. Lee and Jeff Plungis 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…

GM Changed Ignition Part Without Telling Drivers, Regulators -NBC By Gabe Gutierrez, Rich Gardella, Kevin Monahan and Talesha Reynolds According to the Meltons, experts contacted by attorney Lance Cooper examined the “black box” from the accident and found that the key had slipped from the “on” to the “accessory” position three seconds before the accident,…

General Motors Co. share price up, recalls more than 1.5 million vehicles – Binary Tribune The company has been facing difficulties after recalling almost 800 000 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 models. Only a few days after that lawyer Lance Cooper claimed in a letter to government regulators that there were more vehicle models of…

GM recall doubled as Ga. lawyer pushed U.S. regulators – Tire Business Six days after General Motors Co. recalled almost 800,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and Pontiac G5s for a defect that could cause surprise engine shutdowns, lawyer Lance Cooper, a solo practitioner in Georgia, sent government regulators a letter: There are more faulty GM models out…

GM hasn’t notified recall victims’ families – CNN Money By Chris Isadore General Motors believes at least 12 people were killed by a flaw in the ignition switch in more than 1.6 million of its cars. But it has yet to reveal who those 12 people are — even to the victims’ family members. Read…