Lawyers

• Plaintiffs face critical legal tests in General Motors ignition-switch cases

  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.

• GM ignition-switch fund receives claims for more than 100 deaths

  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.

• U.S. federal prosecutors questioning GM lawyers on vehicle recalls: source

  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.

• Industry observers predict additional recalls at GM

  After meeting with a top executive at General Motors Co, Barclays analyst Brian Johnson hinted in a note that there might be several more recalls into the middle of the summer months, Bloomberg reported.

• GM exposes more sins in another vehicle recall

  Today, beleaguered General Motors Inc issued yet another massive recall involving several Chevrolet, Pontiac and Saturn models, among others totaling 2.7 million cars for varied part and technology problems, Yahoo News reported.

• GM mediator confirms meeting with customers to settle ignition defect lawsuits

  Kenneth Feinberg had confirmed in an interview with The Associated Press that he had already talked to a lawyer who represented victims of the ignition defect of some of General Motors Co's small cars.

• Experts says freezing ignition defect lawsuits could cut payouts by billions of dollars

  Bloomberg said that the 2009 order of US Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber, who presided over the Chapter 11 reorganization of General Motors Co, prohibits the automaker from settling claims for damages of its predecessor's liabilities.

• Bankruptcy, US courts to decide whether 'new' GM will be liable for ignition-defect accidents

  A bankruptcy lawyer said that the judge who has handled General Motors CO's 2009 Chapter 11 case will need to determine whether the automaker was aware of the defects in its small cars prior to filing for bankruptcy before deeming that the "new" GM is liable to the 37 lawsuits filed against the company regarding the vehicle recall.

• Documents reveal that regulator overruled investigator in 2007 over defective GM air bags

  Documents recently released by a House panel on the General Motors Co recall indicated that the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration did not order a formal probe upon suggestion by an investigator due to inadequate evidence to launch such review, Bloomberg said.

• US safety regulator imposes $7k daily fine over failure to inform defective ignition

  US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Chief Counsel O. Kevin Vincent had said that General Motors Co has yet to comply with its March 4 order to answer questions on why it waited a long time to issue a vehicle recall despite consumer complaints and engineering concerns, Bloomberg reported.

• Lawyers seeek to consolidate lawsuits, pick judge to handle GM ignition defect litigation

  A motion to consolidate the lawsuits against General Motors Co and the election of a presiding judge has been filed with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in Washington recently.

• Complaints filed against GM said that not all of the faulty vehicles were recalled

  Bloomberg said two complaints filed by customers in San Francisco and Alabama claimed that General Motors Co still has ignition key defects in Chevrolet Cobalts and other cars build through 2010.

• Female CEO set to testify over GM recalls before Congressional Panel

  Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee chair Fred Upton said in a statement yesterday that General Motors Co CEO Mary Barra will be giving her testimony amid a probe over the automaker's vehicle recalls.