
Two years later, according to a filing this year in a class action suit against GM, the company told NHTSA it saw “no specific problem pattern” in crashes of cars it already knew to have an ignition switch problem, where airbags failed to open. Furthermore, during GM’s bankruptcy proceedings, the company was required to file disclosures to the court about its potential liabilities and known creditors. It did not include any of the people with active legal claims against the company based on ignition switch problems in its list, according to the court filing. SALES PRACTICES The states’ investigation is likely to focus on whether state consumer fraud laws have http://recentinews.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-dating-point-to-launch-its-newest.html been violated, targeting unfair and deceptive acts and practices, said William Brauch, director of the consumer protection division at the Iowa Department of Justice. “Multi-state investigations of this kind typically focus on consumer protection related issues,” added Whitney Ray, a spokesman for Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nevada, New York, and South Carolina are all probing GM, representatives said. Brauch said the states have conducted similar investigations in the cases of Firestone tires, Ford SUV rollovers and unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles. Brauch, who is a special assistant attorney general in Iowa, said the AGs might probe whether the manufacturer misrepresented a facet of a product in its advertising, or failed to disclose a known defect. “Our laws allow us to take action in connection with omissions of material fact,” Brauch said.
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