GM settles high-profile ignition-switch case with Georgia family – Rueters
By Joseph White
The Melton family settled a civil action against GM for $5 million in September 2013. But last year, the family filed a second lawsuit in Georgia state court, alleging that GM knew more about the defect linked to Brooke Melton’s death than it had disclosed in the prior case, and had committed fraud in the original proceedings.
“One of the most important issues for the Meltons was accountability,” lawyer Lance Cooper said in a statement Friday.