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 ...

General Motors catches new ignition switch problem early, recalls 3,300 trucks and SUVs This undated photo provided by Chevrolet shows the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado. General Motors is recalling about 3 ...

Rep. Diana DeGette, ranking member of the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, holds up a GM ignition switch while she questions GM CEO Marry Bara in Washington. AP DETROIT — General ...

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 ...

DETROIT - The death toll from faulty ignition switches in small cars made by General Motors (GM) has reached 104. Victims' families are being offered compensation of at least $1 million each by ...

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 ...

A special compensation fund for victims of GM's faulty ignition switch has issued its first report, and it makes clear that GM will pay claims for more than the 13 deaths the automaker says were ...

Compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg said Tuesday he hopes within the next few weeks to provide General Motors Co. with a set of options for offering financial restitution to victims of car crashes ...