NHTSA Drops the Ball – The Legal Examiner
March 10, 2014/
NHTSA Drops the Ball – The Legal Examiner
By Brett Emison
“The chief engineer who discovered the problem, he just whitewashed it. We can’t fit it in time, so it will have to remain in the car when we begin selling them later this year,” [attorney Lance] Cooper says. “It’s bone-chilling. They recognized the defect. If they just would have fixed it, I have no doubt that Brooke Melton would be alive today.”
“I’m a conservative trial lawyer and I am conservative in my beliefs that the federal government often doesn’t do a good job, and you need the private market – in the case, the jury system that allows individuals to investigate and hold GM accountable.”