Delphi Automotive, the element builder that supplied the ignition switches at the center of GM’s enormous recall, has agreed to give lawyers access to thousands of documents and enable conversations with staff in exchange for getting dropped as a defendant, Automotive News reports. The business had previously refused to cooperate with GM’s internal investigation on the ignition switches.Lawyers representing the loved ones of Brooke Melton, who died in a 2010 crash that is been blamed on a faulty ignition switch in her Chevy Cobalt, told Automotive News that Delphi signed the deal to stay away from a lengthy court procedure. “We will have total and comprehensive access to their personnel who were involved,” lawyer Jere Beasley said to AN. “They showed us enough documents that day that had been very beneficial to us and extremely damaging to Basic Motors and their credibility.”
Delphi manufactured the GM ignition switches in Mexico, but until now the supplier’s function in the ongoing issues surrounding the GM cars has been unknown. Earlier this week, it was found that GM secretly asked Delphi for a rush order of 500,000 replacement ignition switches on December 18, 2013, 2 months ahead of GM publicly announced its very first ignition-switch recall. GM did not mention this order in its personal internal reports on the issue, nor did it reveal the order to Congress.
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