A Texas lawyer on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against General Motors Co. on behalf of 658 people who the law firm alleges either died or were injured due to the automaker’s ignition switch defect, the Detroit News reported today. The lawsuit comes just days before independent compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg is to begin accepting claims for families of people who died or were injured tied to the faulty ignition switch. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and lists families of 29 people who died in vehicles allegedly tied to an ignition switch defect and another 629 injured. The plaintiffs are suing for wrongful death or injury in accidents that occurred after GM emerged from bankruptcy in July 2009.
