Lawyers

• Trump’s 35% border tax policy pushes Ford, Fiat Chrysler to invest in US instead of Mexico

  With the threat of a 35 percent Border Tax on all cars manufactured in Mexico and sold in the United States, some Car Manufacturers decide to invest in improving US-based plants instead of opening new ones in Mexico.

• GM cites progress in faulty ignition-switch case settlement talks

  The cases that GM has been facing regarding its faulty ignition switches are now making good progress. The faulty switches was said to be the cause of numerous cases of deaths and injuries.

• General Motors Co. settles ignition-switch case ahead of third trial

  The supposed third case on General Motors faulty ignition switch has been settled in court. Plaintiffs of the case alleged the motor company's faulty switch to be the cause of multiple injuries and deaths.

• GM faces second trial over defective ignition switch

  General Motors will be coming back to court again to defend itself against a case regarding their defective ignition switches. The suit claimed that they secretly know the flaw and didn't inform the public and regulators about it.

• First trial starts in General Motors ignition switch recall case

  The first of six planned civil trials has started in NYC federal court aimed at testing legal boundaries of claims against GM over faulty ignition switch linked to hundreds injuries and deaths.

• GM, law firm can keep ignition switch documents secret: U.S. judge

  General Motors Co (GM.N) and its law firm need not turn over privileged documents to drivers hoping to show that the automaker intended to commit a crime or fraud by concealing defective ignition switches in their vehicles, a Manhattan federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

• Takata air bag recall probe could expand: U.S. regulator

  U.S. regulators said on Monday they could expand their investigation into Takata Corp (7312.T) air bag inflators beyond 11 automakers, as questions arose about whether vehicle design played a role in the devices posing a deadly risk to the public.

• GM to pay $900 million, settle U.S. criminal case over ignition switches

  General Motors Co (GM.N) has agreed to pay $900 million and sign a deferred-prosecution agreement to end a U.S. government investigation into its handling of an ignition-switch defect linked to 124 deaths, two sources told Reuters.

• Strike ends at Brazil GM plant after union flexes muscle

  Workers at a General Motors Co (GM.N) car factory in Brazil ended a six-day strike on Thursday after the company dropped plans to lay off 800 employees, the union said, ending the latest labor standoff in the troubled Brazilian auto industry.

• GM gets 33 more claims for faulty ignition switch compensation

  General Motors Co (GM.N) received another 33 claims for compensation for ignition switch defects in its cars in the past week, bringing the total to 4,345, according to the administrator of the company's compensation program.

• GM does not have to turn over notes to ignition-flaw plaintiffs: judge

  A U.S. judge on Thursday refused to let plaintiffs’ lawyers suing General Motors Co (GM.N) access notes from lawyers the company hired to prepare an internal report on the automaker's decade-long mishandling of a deadly ignition-switch flaw.

• U.S. regulators close probes into about 600,000 Ford, GM vehicles

  U.S. safety regulators have closed investigations into about 500,000 Ford Motor Co (F.N) and about 100,000 General Motors Co (GM.N) vehicles without calling for recalls, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday.

• Arizona is first U.S. state to sue GM over delayed recalls

  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.

• GM ordered new switches months before recall

  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).

• First GM safety-defect trial set for January 2016

  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.

• GM tells court it not liable for claims over pre-bankruptcy cars

  General Motors (GM.N) said in a court filing on Wednesday that it should not have to face lawsuits based on safety issues in cars made before its 2009 bankruptcy, including a faulty ignition switch that led to the recall of 2.6 million cars earlier this year.

• U.S. appeals court rules for GM over Spyker's Saab sale

  General Motors Co (GM.N) persuaded a federal appeals court to uphold the dismissal of a $3 billion lawsuit in which Spyker NV (SPYKF.PK) accused it of derailing a plan to sell the Swedish automaker Saab to a Chinese company.

• Deaths linked to GM ignition-switch defect rise to 29

  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.