(Bloomberg) — General Motors Co. won its second straight trial against drivers who blamed car wrecks on faulty ignition switches, boosting the company's outlook for resolving hundreds of similar cases on more favorable terms.
The crash of Dionne Spain's 2007 Saturn Sky on a New Orleans bridge in 2014 was the result of a rare Louisiana ice storm even though the car had a defect found in millions of GM vehicles, a Manhattan federal jury found on Wednesday.
"The jurors studied the merits of the case and saw the truth: This was a very minor accident that had absolutely nothing to do with the car's ignition switch," GM said in a statement.
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