Originally published by Fort Worth Injury Attorney Blog.
The United States Senate, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Department of Justice are investigating the nightmare caused to drivers when their small General Motors cars suddenly became disabled at highway speeds.
This turned off the power steering, power brakes and air bags in various Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Saturns, and other GM vehicles, making a car crash — and possibly death — inevitable. Due to a 13 year delay in issuing recalls, over 300 people have died and thousands of people have been injured. GM has finally gotten around to recalling 9.4 million vehicles under intense pressure.
Senate Hearings Today
Today, GM’s chief executive officer and chief counsel are being grilled by U. S. senators at a consumer protection committee hearing. The CEO Mary T. Barra, was lambasted by this committee in April.
The high ranking chairwoman, Senator Claire McCaskill, also ripped into GM’s legal department, which fought the lawsuits brought by the victims of the collisions even after the company kinew that its defective switch was to blame. Senator McCaskill wondered why its chief counsel had not been fired and described the company as having a “culture of lawyering up” which “killed innocent customers.” She noted that GM’s long-delayed recall showed “indifference, incompetence and deceit.”
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