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Product Liability

Mar. 5, 2014

GM's delayed recall a moral failure

General Motors recently issued a recall of 778,000 vehicles; two weeks later it upped that to 842,000. But when did GM know? By Jonathan Michaels


By Jonathan Michaels


Sometimes people engage in acts so vile, they begin to erode our belief in all that is right and just. Acts of corporate irresponsibility are nothing new; wayward executives have long put profitability and success ahead of moral correctness. But some decisions are just so reckless, it is impossible to understand how they ever met with boardroom approval.


On Feb. 13, General Motors issued a recall of 778,000 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pont...

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