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Lance Cooper of The Cooper Law Firm in Marietta, Georgia, interviewed by Michael J. Swanson, Author of How David Beats Goliath – Access to Capital for Contingent-Fee Law Firms, about the recent GM recalls and why they are important for all consumers.

GM Airbag Non-Deployments: What the NHTSA Data Really Show – Safety Research and Strategies By Sean Kane Since the General Motors ignition switch debacle blew wide open last spring, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has defended its years-long failure to recall the deadly vehicles by arguing that several other vehicle models had more consumer…

Airbag defendants limit disclosure by striking confidential settlements – Bloomberg Confidential agreements are keeping valuable information out of the public eye, lawyers and safety advocates said. Many of the details that helped get to the root of a General Motors ignition-switch flaw came from statements made in depositions after the Detroit-based carmaker chose to fight…

GM To Submit Certain Privileged Ignition Switch Docs – Law 360 By Sindhu Sundar General Motors Co.’s attorneys this week told the New York federal court overseeing the ignition switch defect multidistrict litigation that it has agreed to turn over documents that it previously submitted to the government, as well as certain documents relevant to…

Former General Motors Ignition Switch Engineer Ray DeGiorgio Speaks Out – GM Authority By Diego Rosenberg DeGiorgio compounded his mistake when he told GM product investigators both in 2009 and 2012 that he had never changed the Cobalt ignition, according to documents. In his deposition in April of last year, DeGiorgio did not recall replacing the faulty switch in…

Airbag settlements keep details from other victims of accidents – Automotive News By Jeff Green and Margaret Cronin Fisk Takata doesn’t comment on pending litigation, spokesman Alby Berman said in an e-mailed statement. The company is cooperating fully with NHTSA and is working to meet its requests, he said. Confidential agreements are keeping valuable information out…

Switched Off – Trial Magazine By Lance Cooper and Pat Dawson The Story of how GM’s ignition switch defects came to light can be instructive for other products liability litigation against automakers. Kenneth and Beth Melton suffered a painful loss when their daughter, Brooke, died in a car wreck in 2010. But when they first…

A Fatally Flawed Switch, and a Burdened G.M. Engineer – The New York Times By Bill Vlasic But a reckoning was coming. Lawyers representing the family of Brooke Melton, a Georgia woman killed in a Cobalt crash, sued G.M. and discovered during independent testing that older Cobalts had different ignition switches than newer ones did.…

Delphi, lawyers suing GM reach deal – The Detroit News by Melissa Burden and Michael Wayland Georgia attorney Lance Cooper, representing families of those who died and were injured in crashes allegedly linked to the defect, on Thursday said the auto supplier has agreed to produce requested documents and grant access to depose Delphi employees. Delphi…

Delphi turns over GM recall evidence in deal with plaintiffs – Automotive News By Nick Bunkely Two of the lawyers, Jere Beasley and Lance Cooper, said Delphi officials recently met with them and signed the deal in order to avoid a potentially prolonged discovery process in court. Delphi manufactured the ignition switches at a factory…