Georgia Lawyer Dug Deep to Bring Case Against General Motors – Insurance Journal

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 what GM did with the ignition switch. Kane, the president of Rehoboth, Massachusetts- based Safety Research & Strategies Inc., has worked with plaintiffs’ lawyers on suits involving sport-utility vehicle rollovers, tire recalls and unintended acceleration in some Toyota Motor Corp. models. He consulted on Cooper’s suit against GM.

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