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...She’s comfortable on a factory floor and is known for smooth, no-nonsense competency, which helped her respond to the ignition-switch scandal that broke early in her tenure at GM....
...’s ignition switch crises a few years back, to more recent debacles like the PG&E grid failure and fires in California, Boeing’s problems, and any number of failures at the former corporate behemoth GE....
...General Motors’ ignition switch crisis of 2013-14, which at first looked to be the result of a bad decision on the part of a single engineer, also has its roots in a period of extraordinary budget slashing...
...As Mr Glidden admits, reflecting on his switch to GM: “I did not expect the work to be so fulfilling.”...
...the switch, which had been known to be faulty since 2004....
...GM said that it had already started to show “strong, clear and convincing evidence” even before the withdrawal that the ignition switch had nothing to do with a crash Mr Scheuer suffered in May 2014 or the...
...Ms Barra had a challenging start at GM, with the company’s ignition switch scandal that has been linked to the deaths of 124 people emerging just as she was appointed....
...An engineer, Ray DeGiorgio, redesigned the faulty ignition switch in 2006 without properly informing his superiors and subsequently gave sworn evidence denying knowledge of how the switch came to be redesigned...
...Mary Barra, GM’s chief executive, who took over only weeks before the crisis broke, said in a statement: “The mistakes that led to the ignition switch recall should never have happened....
...That judgment flies in the face of a high-profile safety campaign launched by GM in the wake of a damaging global recall over fatal ignition switch defects....
...executive Mary Barra will publish her first quarterly results not overshadowed by the continuing fallout from the company’s ignition switch scandal....
...This included money set aside for compensation claims linked to older cars with ignition switch defects now accepted by GM to have caused at least 107 deaths....
...It has so far recognised that the fault — which could cause an ignition switch to move from the “run” to “accessory” position while the vehicle was in motion — was responsible for at least 84 deaths....
...Last year’s second quarter also included $1.28bn in costs related to vehicle recalls and compensation for a potentially fatal ignition switch fault in millions of compact cars....
...The ignition switch costs reflect the continued burden to GM of recalling and repairing vehicles fitted with a faulty component that can shift from “run” to “accessory” while the vehicle is being operated...
...ignition switch crisis — to the more aggressive approach typified by the Fiat Chrysler fine....
...The company’s performance was overshadowed for much of last year by revelations about its failure for more than a decade to recall vehicles with an ignition switch fault that led to at least 51 deaths....
...Special items — including the costs of a compensation scheme related to the ignition switch issue — rose to $2.4bn in 2014, up from $1.3bn in 2013....
...The NHTSA also levied daily fines against GM at one point last year when it was dissatisfied with its response to the ignition switch problem, which led to at least 56 deaths in the US and Canada....
...GM faces a series of investigations – including possible criminal charges – over its handling of the ignition switch recall issues....
...Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer charged with compensating victims of General Motors’ botched ignition switch recall, on Monday outlined an unexpectedly wide-ranging plan that would award millions of dollars...
...Chief executive Mary Barra, who took the top job in January, is overhauling GM’s recall policy after the company failed for more than a decade to report an ignition switch problem with vehicles that has...
...Although GM’s botched recall of cars with ignition switch failures is best known, Chrysler has recalled more than 600,000 vehicles over ignition switches this year....
...The latest ignition switch recalls – and a series of smaller recalls announced alongside – take GM’s total worldwide recalls for the year past 20m....
...“Our protocol spells out those models [where] GM has determined there was an ignition switch defect as defined in our protocol,” she said....
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