(Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. won a partial victory in its second trial over faulty ignition switches as a judge threw out a key fraud claim against the automaker, a company spokesman said, boosting the company’s outlook for resolving hundreds of similar cases on better terms.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday dismissed the fraud claim, granting a GM motion that driver Dionne Spain hadn’t presented enough evidence to show that the company made false or misleading statements about the defect in its cars. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman didn’t issue a written opinion. The ruling follows Furman’s earlier rejection of other claims, including a demand for punitive damages.
Jurors in Manhattan federal court will still weigh whether Spain’s 2007 Saturn Sky had a defect and whether that defect led to a crash on a New Orleans bridge in 2014. GM rested its defense Monday and the case will go to the jury Tuesday.
|Fraudulent misrpresentation claim dismissed
“Dismissing the fraudulent-misrepresentation claim was the right decision because there was not sufficient evidence presented at trial to even send it to the jury to decide,” GM spokesman Jim Cain said in an e-mailed statement.
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