Georgia lawsuit still causing trouble for GM

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his undated photo provided by the The Cooper Firm on behalf of the Melton family shows Brooke Melton, who was killed in a car crash while driving her Chevrolet Cobalt near Atlanta in March 2010. The Melton family settled a wrongful death lawsuit against General Motors. The family's lawyers now want to reopen the case and show that GM fraudulently concealed a problem with the car's ignition switch.

Georgia lawsuit still causing trouble for GM
By TOM KRISHER
AP Auto Writer
July 1, 2014 Updated 26 minutes ago

DETROIT — For more than a year, a lawsuit filed by Brooke Melton's family has caused major migraines for General Motors.

Litigation over the 29-year-old nurse's death was settled by GM last October. But not before it laid bare how the company allowed millions of small cars to stay on the road more than a decade after GM discovered ignition switch flaws linked to at least 13 fatalities.

Now the case could upend GM's strategy to compensate victims and limit its legal liabilities in such tragedies.

The Melton family lawyers want to reopen the case and show that GM fraudulently concealed the switch problem. If they win, more plaintiffs are likely to take the company to court or expect bigger payments.