US: GM furloughs two engineers in recall probe – Just Auto
By Graeme Roberts
In a now-settled civil lawsuit against GM over the death of Brooke Melton, killed in a 2010 crash of her 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt that experienced switch failure, lawyer Lance Cooper asked DeGiorgio whether he had ever “signed a work order or a change authorisation” to approve a redesigned ignition switch.
DeGiorgio said: “I don’t recall ever authorising such a change, but it would definitely have been picked up in our engineering change systems of such a work order.”