Interview: Lance Cooper, Attorney Suing GM – Judging the Law
Interview: Lance Cooper, Attorney Suing GM – Judging the Law
By Janet Sobel
I had the great pleasure to talk with Lance Cooper, the Georgia attorney who represents the family of Brooke Melton, a 29 year-old woman who died in a March 2010 accident while driving one of General Motor’s Cobalt vehicles that are now known to have been burdened with defective ignition switches. Mr. Cooper had a lot of interesting things to tell me about the Melton case and how things stand right now. Of greatest interest to me was learning that Mr. Cooper has just filed another lawsuit against GM on behalf of the Melton family to set aside the settlement that GM thought it bought before the full truth of what many are calling a “cover-up” was known. If you have been following the news about the defective GM switches, then you already know that GM is being accused of having concealed its awareness of the dangerous ignition switches from the public, despite knowing (seemingly for over a decade) the switches were resulting in deadly automobile accidents.