While General Motors has settled one potentially explosive lawsuit related to defective ignition switches, the company still faces the possibility of depositions of its employees in a broader class-action case, the New York Times reported today. A number of current and former GM employees are scheduled to be questioned under oath, beginning in May, in a sweeping case in federal court in New York. GM avoided depositions in the wrongful-death case settled last week with the parents of Brooke Melton, 29, a Georgia woman who was killed in a crash in a Chevrolet Cobalt equipped with a faulty ignition switch. But the lawyers who represented Melton’s parents said yesterday that legal efforts to collect internal GM documents and depose employees would continue nonetheless. The lawyers said that the discovery process begun in Ms. Melton’s case had accelerated similar efforts in the so-called multidistrict litigation, which consolidates a number of lawsuits for injury and death cases, as well as economic losses sustained by owners of defective vehicles. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/business/gm-will-face-further-discovery-in-broader-class-action-case.html?ref=business
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