General Motors is currently fighting about 60 lawsuits from customers who want to be reimbursed for their faulty cars involved in the widely publicized ignition switch recall. The automaker has now asked a federal court in Texas to prevent a group of customers from gathering information on the company’s handling of the recall, according to Automotive News.
A bankruptcy judge reviewing the lawsuits has said he would consider the requests from complainants to gather material from GM as he decides if their demands are lawful. GM is against this, and argues all evidence gathering should be executed in a coordinated fashion when the decision is made to combine the suits into one and the trial can commence.
In April, a lawyer representing plaintiffs requested the multiple lawsuits against GM be consolidated into one case.
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If it’s just because of the recall or defect, and no one was injured or worse, I agree with GM on this. There are some suing over value lost, which in my honest opinion is a little absurd. The Sky and Solstice, I could make an exception, but what would the value for those be these days? My Cobalt is a 2005, it cost about $14,000, recall or no recall, I don’t expect to get anymore than $3000 possibly less for it. Then there are some that will sue just because the issue exists.
Yeah, people buy new cars knowing that they will lose money right away and more so over time. All vehicles have a recall at some point and there is no guarantee what a resale value would be in 10 years.
That is just it unless you were killed or injured you should have nothing coming to you but a repaired car.
This is why society is so screwed up anymore. While not all companies are not honest the fact is many customers are not honest either. This is just like someone spilling hot coffee on themselves at Mc D’s and then blaming them for the burns.
It has gotten to the point even an honest company can not just be forth coming on these issues for fear of retribution at the hands of a lawyer. They generally have to remain quiet and settle out of court as it is cheaper.
It is time for Tort Reform in this country and not just corporate responsibility but each person to be required a certain level of personal responsibility.
This company and it’s executives have defrauded the American tax payers and knowingly endangered the lives of it’s customers. Where’s the confusion?
Taxpayers lose everyday in this country. The investment here was worth it. The government spends taxpayer money on a lot worse, sometimes without criticism. Now the only executives that could have frauded was the ones of the older company, because they were the ones in bankruptcy court. Even then though since the government regulated the bankruptcy, they should probably be in this also. This even stumped the NHTSA, which probably isn’t that hard to do, but people were losing lives by extreme driving conditions, like THC in the blood, alcohol, excessive speeding, etc. It’s unfortunate when lives are lost, but this isn’t just on the current company. From what I’ve followed GM is helping those families out that had major tragedy from this. These extra lawsuits about resale value, and suing just because, is kind of unnecessary.
I have been defrauded by the President I can keep the doctor I want and my health coverage has been endangered by increased cost and my doctor retiring. So what is your point?
As I can see you have been taken in by the media and need to really learn the realities of the world. Life is not fair and there have been much worse things happen with all companies.
I own one of the affected cars and my life is in no more danger than any other car. My ignition like the majority of the affected cars is tight and in no danger of shutting off.
It is time for you to investigate the conditions and the actions of the 13 killed as speed and alcohol was involved in half of the crashes as well as the lack of the use of a seat belt.
Again personal responsibility may have saved over 2/3 of these people alone and if they had not been violating the law they may have never had an accident.
One only needs to step back and take in all the facts and the full perspective to see that while GM may have done something wrong many of the victims also were far from fault free. The fact is even if the switch has worked in many of the cases they would have severely injured and even killed anyways.
I find of the many car issues over the years this one is not even in the top ten of major issues of a design flaw.
Should have GM made a better switch hell yes but it was more than just the switch that lead to tragedy here. That is something that many members of the media has ignorantly left out. Thanks to the few that report all the stories did we get the other side.