The number of people killed in crashes caused by a faulty ignition switch in older General Motors cars now stands at 19 and could grow to well over 100 based on the number of claims filed against the ...

GM CEO Mary Barra will be on the hot seat today as Congress grills the GM chief and government regulators over what took the company so long to issue a recall over a fatal ignition switch defect.

GM’s CEO Mary Barra in a employees’ town-hall meeting today announced that 15 employees have been fired and five others disciplined over the handling of the faulty ignition switches. An internal audit ...

In a closely watched case with others set to come to trial, a Texas jury found Thursday that an ignition switch in a 2007 Saturn Sky did not cause a 2011 crash that killed one person and injured ...

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 ...

GM will pay $900 million to settle criminal charges with the U.S. Justice Department for the auto maker’s botched handling of an ignition-switch defect and is expected to pay millions more to families ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jurors on Friday heard testimony from a former General Motors engineer who approved a faulty ignition switch 12 years before its problems prompted a massive recall that came too ...

DETROIT -- General Motors today said it will pay a $1 million fine to settle an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission related to its 2014 ignition-switch recalls. The agreement ...

(Reuters) - General Motors Co's bid to block hundreds of lawsuits, potentially worth billions of dollars, over a deadly ignition-switch defect broke down on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court refused ...