A lawsuit filed against General Motors claiming its faulty ignition switch was responsible for a crash involving a 2007 Saturn Ion has been thrown out by the judge presiding over the case. The ...

General Motors recently issued a recall for several different models due to an ignition switch issue similar to the one that plagued 2.7 million of its small cars and resulted in the deaths of 13 ...

How did this happen? A scathing audit of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) by the Department of Transportation's Office of ...

For several weeks, CBS News has been reporting on its investigation into a General Motors recall. At least 13 people have died in accidents linked to an ignition-switch defect. CBS News' reporting ...

One family says they feel validated that their daughter's death may be included. — -- The number of people who’ve died in connection to GM's failed ignition switch and are eligible for ...

Lawyers hired to compensate victims of General Motors’ faulty ignition switches have paid out $594.5 million to settle 399 eligible claims. The numbers were released Thursday in a final report from ...

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 ...

A pervading atmosphere of incompetence and neglect at General Motors led the company to allow a deadly problem to fester for 11 years before anyone acted to correct it. So says a report Thursday ...

General Motors is expanding its vehicle recall. A 2006 Chevrolet Impala LTZ is seen in this image. Tom Drew/GM — -- General Motors announced today another ignition-switch recall for an additional ...

Earlier this month, General Motors decided to recall more than 600,000 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 cars built for the 2005-2007 model years to fix a faulty ignition switch. Today, the ...

In his report, Feinberg also linked the ignition switches to 275 injuries, the vast majority of which were minor injuries requiring hospitalization or outpatient treatment within 48 hours of an ...

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 ...