Hagens Berman: General Motors Consumer Lawsuit Alleges Mail and Wire Fraud in ... - Business Wire (press release)
)--Consumers represented by co-lead counsel Hagens Berman and Lieff Cabraser today filed an expanded class-action complaint against General Motors (NYSE:GM), bringing RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) claims against New GM... Attorneys from the consumer-rights law firms allege that New GM’s outside counsel, King and Spaulding, and its retained risk-assessment and claims management company, ESIS, were complicit in New GM’s scheme to conceal the ignition switch defect... The amended lawsuit claims that, in part as the result of information New GM learned in defending personal injury claims resulting from the ignition switch defect, New GM was well aware of the defect and its deadly consequences many years before... Some 12 million of the affected cars had ignition switch defects, and the remainder of the cars had many other defects, including serious safety defects affecting power steering, brakes, seatbelts, airbags and virtually every safety system in GM... Source: www.businesswire.com
