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That GM Loaner May Not be Safer – Safety Research & Strategies Inc. Last week, General Motors attempted to pour oil on its troubled waters with an offer of free loaner cars for consumers awaiting a fix for the wandering ignition defect that is linked to at least 13 deaths. But, Consumers for Auto Reliability and…

GM Recall Doubled as Georgia Lawyer Pushed U.S. Regulators – Bloomberg 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 GM did…

Solo practitioner ‘single-handedly set the stage’ for massive GM recall – ABA Journal By Martha Neil Although it had known for years about an issue with ignition switches in some General Motors vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration didn’t require a recall, lawyer Lance Cooper told Bloomberg. It wasn’t until the Georgia solo practitioner dug…

How a Georgia lawyer ‘single-handedly set the stage’ for GM’s massive recall – Dallas News 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…

Solo practitioner ‘single-handedly set the stage’ for massive GM recall – ABA Journal By Martha Neil It wasn’t until the Georgia solo practitioner dug for evidence against the automaker in a wrongful death case that the company recalled almost 800,000 vehicles last month, saying those cars could suddenly shut down if a driver jostled the…

As Scandal Unfolds, G.M. Calls In the Lawyers – New York Times By Matthew Goldstein and Barry Meier Read the full story here.  

GM Staff, Media Flagged Ignition Fault Long Before Recall – Bloomberg By Jeff Green and Jeff Plungis  The almost decade-old discussions of the defects — those voiced publicly as well as within GM — are contained within more than 32,000 pages of documents and depositions gathered by Lance Cooper, a Georgia lawyer who argued that…

Newly released GM records show ignition problems surfaced as early as 2001 – Detroit Free Press By Todd Spangler The family of Brooke Melton, 29, who died in a 2010 crash in a 2005 Cobalt, were not affected by GM’s liability shield. They sued and settled with GM in a confidential agreement. But the Melton family’s…

Feds open criminal probe into General Motors over recall – CBS The U.S. Attorney’s office in New York has opened a criminal investigation into General Motors to determine if there was any criminal wrongdoing on the part of GM stemming from the automaker’s faulty ignition switch recall last month, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to…

GM Recall 2014: Pictures Of The Tiny Ignition Switch Part That Could Cost General Motors Dearly – International Business Times By Angelo Times Miller was hired by Lance Cooper, a personal injury lawyer in Marietta, Ga., to examine the Chevrolet Cobalt driven by Brooke Melton, a 29-year-old nurse who was killed on March 10, 2010,…