(Bloomberg) -- The Oklahoma mail carrier at the center of the first trial over General Motors Co.’s deadly ignition-switch defect is dropping his claims after he and his wife were accused of lying in court, in a major victory for the carmaker.
Robert Scheuer, 49, will walk away empty-handed, ending a lawsuit that was supposed to serve as a guide for hundreds of others against GM over the ignition switch, his lawyer said in a filing Friday in Manhattan federal court.
Scheuer sued over claims the defective switch in his 2003 Saturn Ion disabled his air bag in an accident that led to neck and back injuries. The case, the first of six so-called bellwether trials used to help settle mass litigation, collapsed after GM found evidence undermining several claims. They included the nature of his injuries and his family’s eviction from their “dream house” after the wreck.
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