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GM wins second trial over crashes blamed on ignition flaw

The carmaker has already paid out more than $2 billion to resolve legal issues stemming from the scandal.

By Erik Larson, Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg | Updated on March 30, 2016
In its verdict in favor of GM, the jury agreed that Spain’s Saturn Sky was “unreasonably dangerous” and deviated from the company’s performance standards.

(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.

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