General Motors Plans to Offer a Broad Payout – Wall Street Journal

General Motors Plans to Offer a Broad Payout – Wall Street Journal

Fund Could Offer Payments to Anyone Injured or Killed in Crash in Which Air Bags Didn’t Deploy

By Jeff Bennett

GM cited the case in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing and said it intends to vigorously defend such cases.

The Van Pelt family’s complaint lists nearly a dozen other cases of accidents in which air bags didn’t deploy, involving cars GM later recalled for the ignition-switch defect.

Some of the cases haven’t been linked to the ignition-switch problem, Mr. Cooper said.

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