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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 the government and the public to a massive cover-up by GM is one of the…

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 a second time. Lawyers representing the parents of crash victim Brooke Melton announced the settlement…

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 court, alleging that GM knew more about the defect linked to Brooke Melton’s death than…

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 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt. Evidence found by the Meltons’ attorney, Lance Cooper, showed that a GM…

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 GM accountable, and that is what refiling the lawsuit did,” the Meltons’ lawyer, Lance Cooper,…

GM Heads Back Into Court – Wall Street Journal By Mike Spector “…Lance Cooper, the lawyer representing the Melton family, said he likely wouldn’t have taken the case had it been relegated to Old GM. GM’s decision to take on legal liability for the Melton case and others like it opened the door for the…

GM returns to bankruptcy court seeking legal protection By Greg Gardner, Detroit Free Press …the family of Brooke Melton, the Georgia nurse who died in March 2010 after her 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt rolled off a highway near her home, have withdrawn their acceptance of a $5-million settlement GM offered before last year’s recall. But their…

Takata, plaintiffs tussle over access to airbag inflators for testing Automotive News Such work has proven crucial in recent defect cases. It was the work of Georgia attorney Lance Cooper that provided the major breakthrough to identify the underlying defect in General Motors ignition switches that had evaded regulators and GM for years. Complicating matters…