President Donald Trump will likely be faced with questions pertaining his Muslim immigration ban when he meets with the CEOs of major U.S. companies on Friday at the White House.
After years of being piled up with lawsuits from left to right regarding the leading car company in Detroit, General Motors Company (GM), they finally gained their share of victories in various cases ranging from fatal incidents to injuries.
People suing General Motors Co over a faulty ignition switch will get two chances in Manhattan court this week to fight with GM. They will argue that the company should be held accountable for injuries, deaths, and lost vehicle value.
General Motors ignition-switch test trials will continue despite effort of the lawyers for the plaintiffs to revise it. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman announced that he will continue with the pending six bellwether or test this year.
Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) shares plunged by nearly 20 percent on Monday after the German carmaker admitted it had rigged emissions tests of diesel-powered vehicles in the United States, and U.S. authorities said they would widen the probe to other automakers.
Toyota Motor Corp moved into damage control mode on Friday after its new communications chief Julie Hamp, an American and its first senior woman executive, was arrested on suspicion of illegally bringing pain killers into Japan just two months after her appointment.
General Motors Co will not have to face dozens of lawsuits accusing it of concealing an ignition-switch defect that led to the recall of 2.6 million vehicles, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled on Wednesday.
In the first lawsuit brought by a state against General Motors Co over recalls relating to a defective ignition switch, Arizona has accused the company of putting the public at risk by concealing safety issues and delaying the recalls.
General Motors Co (GM.N) ordered half a million replacement ignition switches almost two months before it alerted federal safety regulators of the issues that prompted a recall of millions of vehicles, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing email exchanges between the automaker and its supplier Delphi Automotive Plc (DLPH.N).
A federal judge in Manhattan has set Jan. 11, 2016, for the first trial in consolidated litigation against General Motors Co over a series of safety issues, including a faulty ignition switch, that have prompted millions of recalls this year.
Two U.S. senators demanded Thursday that safety regulators issue a nationwide recall of automobiles with potentially defective air bags that can launch metal shards into occupants.
A program to compensate victims of a faulty ignition switch in General Motors Co (GM.N) vehicles has approved two new death claims, bringing the total number of deaths linked so far to the switch to 29, according to a report released on Monday by the lawyer overseeing the program.
The fund to compensate for deaths or injuries linked to General Motors Co (GM.N) vehicles with faulty ignition switches this week made its first cash offers to about 15 people, the office of the lawyer overseeing the program said on Wednesday.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday ordered discovery to begin for some cases filed against General Motors Co (GM.N) in connection with its recall of millions of cars for a faulty ignition switch.
Federal auto safety regulators played a significant role in General Motors Co's (GM.N) failure to promptly report and recall cars with defective parts that led to at least 19 deaths, a congressional report said on Tuesday.
A program to compensate victims of crashes linked to a faulty ignition switch in General Motors vehicles has received claims for 107 deaths as of Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman for the lawyer overseeing the program.
India's pricing regulator has fined more than a dozen global and local carmakers a total of 25.5 billion rupees ($420 million) after a probe found they had engaged in anti-competitive practices in the world's sixth largest auto market.
U.S. federal prosecutors have learned that lawyers for General Motors Co were present at key meetings during which information about problems with some of its vehicles were discussed, a source close to the investigation said.
According to the latest General Motors recall, the defect affects 6.8 million 1997-2005 Chevy Malibus, 2000-2005 Impala/Monte Carlos, 1998-2002 Olds Intrigues, 1999-2004 Aleros, 2004-2008 Pontiac Grand Prix and 1999-2005 Pontiac Grand Ams.
A report by investigator Anton Valukas commissioned by automaker General Motors Co indicated that lawyers had earlier on warned the company of paying potential punitive damages if accident victims decided to go to trial over the ignition defects in their cars.
In a statement today, lawyer Ken Feinberg has acknowledged taking the role as administrator for General Motors Co's compensation program for victims of the ignition defect of the automaker's small cars, Bloomberg reported.
