DETROIT - General Motors' (GM) deadly ignition switch flaws emerged from an effort to improve its cars. As the company began developing new small cars in the late 1990s, it listened to customers who ...

DETROIT — General Motors will pay $120 million to settle claims from dozens of states in its massive ignition switch defect scandal. The settlement comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier ...

Newly released internal GM documents reveal that the company in 2001 considered -- and rejected – an ignition switch design that two prominent safety advocates say could have avoided the problem that ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Co (GM.N) has agreed to pay $900 million (581 million pounds) and sign a deferred-prosecution agreement to end a U.S. government investigation into its handling of ...

GM’s ignition-switch recall may have reached new heights Thursday, with one auto-safety group declaring that 303 people have died as a result of airbags failing to deploy in two of the six cars ...

The GM engineer who approved production of a faulty ignition switch implicated in at least 13 deaths was the only person within the company who knew prior to 2013 that the part did not meet ...

At least one GM engineer had the problem while testing the new car%2C which went on sale in 2004 GM advised dealers in a 2005 technical service bulletin to install the part if owners complained In the ...

General Motors has reached a preliminary settlement in a lawsuit on behalf of owners of vehicles with faulty ignition switches and related defects, agreeing to pay $120 million. The class-action ...

General Motors said last week that it was recalling more than 700,000 vehicles because of a problem with the ignition switch. GM said six people had been killed in accidents. But CBS News has learned ...

In February, General Motors issued sweeping recalls for several models suspected of having a faulty switch that automatically turns the car's engine off and prevents air bags from deploying — while ...