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Abney et al v. General Motors, LLC

  1. March 30, 2016

    GM Win Shows Defect Alone Can't Prove Damages For Drivers

    General Motors' win in the second ignition switch bellwether trial symbolizes a crucial challenge for drivers who manage to convince a jury that their vehicle was dangerous but ultimately fail to link that danger to their own accidents, a mixed outcome that attorneys say dampens the overall settlement prospects for plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation. 

  2. March 30, 2016

    GM Wins Defense Verdict In 2nd Ignition-Switch Trial

    General Motors on Wednesday won the second bellwether trial in the continuing fight over its defective ignition switches, as a New York federal jury found that GM cars were unreasonably dangerous but did not find that plaintiffs' injuries were caused by their car, a Saturn roadster.

  3. March 29, 2016

    GM Jury Poses Questions To Judge As Deliberations Begin

    A jury began deliberating Tuesday over claims that General Motors' deadly ignition-switch design precipitated a 2014 crash on a freezing New Orleans bridge, following up the morning's closing arguments with a late-day query on how to revoke a verdict.

  4. March 24, 2016

    GM Witness Suggests Defective Ignition Switch Not Unsafe

    General Motors watched a witness' testimony veer into unexpectedly large questions Thursday in the second bellwether trial over its ignition-switch failures, as an initially prosaic car-accident reconstruction bloomed into a full-bore denial of the roots of the defect and suggestions that the switch design was not unsafe.

  5. March 22, 2016

    2nd GM Juror Dismissed For Sleeping During Ignition Trial

    A second juror has been dismissed for sleeping during the second General Motors ignition switch bellwether trial, leaving eight jurors in the New York courtroom of U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman on Tuesday afternoon just after the plaintiffs rested their case.

  6. March 15, 2016

    GM Ignition Engineers Gagged By Orwellian Rules, Jury Told

    As GM refrained from urgently investigating reports of failing ignition switches, engineers deep within the organization were effectively prevented from sounding alarms by a policy that forbade terms like "problem," "bad" and "rolling sarcophagus," a former automotive industry engineer testified in a bellwether trial Tuesday.

  7. March 14, 2016

    Ignition Switches Born Of GM's Own Defects, Jury Told

    Weak ignition switches that would sometimes stall General Motors cars mid-drive embodied the dysfunction of a "broken company," a Saturn driver's lawyer told a New York federal jury in opening arguments Monday for a bellwether trial that will present an important second test of the claims.

  8. March 11, 2016

    GM Ignition Claims Get First Test In Second Bellwether

    General Motors is gearing up for a critical second go in the multidistrict litigation over its ignition switch defect, and the stakes are high after the first trial ended abruptly without a verdict. The carmaker will return to Manhattan federal court Monday to try to convince a jury it's not liable for a 2014 crash that will serve as the true first bellwether in the litigation. Here, Law360 takes a look at the case in advance of the trial.

  9. March 07, 2016

    5 Trials To Follow In 2016

    From legal industry intrigue to Silicon Valley showdowns, this year's trials have a little something for everyone. Federal prosecutors will take their second shot at a pair of former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP executives in a slimmed-down criminal retrial, while Apple and Samsung enter a fourth trial in their sprawling war over smartphone patents. Here, Law360 takes a look at five of the most interesting trials that 2016 has to offer.

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