GM hit with $103M jury verdict in engine flaw class action
This page is for personal, non-commercial use. You may order presentation ready copies to distribute to your colleagues, customers, or clients, by visiting https://www.parsintl.com/publication/autoblog/Each class member will get $2,700 for a truck or SUV with oil consumption problemsA California jury has ordered General Motors to pay $102.
The winning class includes owners and lessees of SUVs and trucks sold from 2011-2014 in California, North Carolina and Idaho that contained the company's Generation IV Vortec 5300 LC9 engine. Each of the roughly 38,000 class members will get $2,700. Christopher Stombaugh of DiCello Levitt, lead lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a statement he was"thankful for the courage of the jury, which did the right thing in holdingsaid in a statement that it did not believe the verdict was supported by the evidence and planned to appeal.
The plaintiffs' 2016 lawsuit centered on an alleged defect that caused the engines to use too much oil and allowed oil to reach parts of the engine where it did not belong, causing damage. They said the company was aware of the problem by 2010, when it recommended to itsmade design changes to the engine in 2011, but ultimately failed to solve the problem and discontinued the engine after the 2014 model year, the plaintiffs said.
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