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Perspective

Jul. 9, 2014

When incompetence becomes malice

Last week, GM announced the establishment of its "victim compensation fund" - a pool of money that it will offer to the scores of people it killed over the past 10 years with its products. By Jonathan Michaels


By Jonathan Michaels


Last week, General Motors announced the establishment of its "victim compensation fund" - a pool of money that it will offer to the scores of people it killed and maimed over the past 10 years with its defective products. The underpinnings of the plan rest on GM's company-wide cover up of an ignition switch defect that exists in millions of its vehicles. When the ignition switch is jarred, it cuts off all power to vehicle, disab...

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