When General Motors realized the ignition switches in a few of its cars was a liability, it had the switches redesigned in 2007. However, GM and Delphi Automotive never bothered to change the part ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - General Motors (GM) admitted it failed to disclose to the public a deadly problem with small-car ignition switches as part of a $900 million deal reached with federal authorities to avoid ...

General Motors agreed Thursday to pay the federal government $900 million and appoint an independent monitor to oversee safety issues in a settlement with the Justice Department over the carmaker's ...

Washington — General Motors Co. ordered more than 500,000 replacement ignition switches in December, launching an "urgent" request six weeks before it began a recall for older Chevrolet Cobalt cars ...

DETROIT -- The legal case against General Motors involving faulty ignition switches could turn in part on a seemingly innocuous word deep in an investigator's report about a Maryland teen who died in ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Co 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 an ...

Federal prosecutors are set to announce a settlement with General Motors that resolves a criminal investigation into how the Detroit automaker concealed a deadly problem with small-car ignition ...