GM Ignition-Switch Death Suit Should Be Revived, Lawyer Says – Bloomberg
May 13, 2014/
GM Ignition-Switch Death Suit Should Be Revived, Lawyer Says – Bloomberg
By Patrick G. Lee
Lance Cooper’s latest legal maneuver may help generate more information about what GM knew — and to what strata of management that knowledge traveled — about faulty ignition switches the company has linked to at least 13 deaths in the past decade.
Cooper filed a new complaint yesterday in Georgia state court in Marietta, asking a judge to reopen the matter, which GM settled in September with his clients, the parents of 29-year-old Brooke Melton. Melton died in 2010 when her 2005 Chevy Cobalt lost power in a crash linked to the defective switch.