Lawsuit Says GM Recall Is 10 Years and 6 Deaths Too Late – Wall St. Cheat Sheet
By Eric Shaal
Lance Cooper, who represented the Georgia woman who died in her Cobalt in 2010, has issued a letter to the NHTSA that says General Motors needs to explain to the agency why it knew of the problem yet began selling the vehicles anyway. USA Today reports that Cooper wants the NHTSA to question GM about the timeliness of its recall. If it had known about the problem in 2004, why did the automaker wait until 2014, when six people had by then died due to crashes in the company’s defective cars?