Toll from faulty General Motors ignition switches rises to 57 deaths, 94 injuries - Winnipeg Free Press
Feinberg and his aides are checking claims filed or postmarked before a Jan. Each eligible death claim is worth at least $1 million under his guidelines. As of Friday, he received 479 death claims and 3,866 injury claims. Feinberg has received a total of 4,345 claims, up 33 from the 4,312 filed as of Feb. Of the claims filed by Friday, 666 were deemed ineligible and 151 are eligible for payments. A few claims arrived since Friday, and Feinberg's office is verifying that they were postmarked before the Jan. Detroit-based GM was aware of faulty ignition switches on Chevrolet Cobalt s and other small cars for more than a decade, but it didn't recall them until 2014. On 2. 6 million cars worldwide, the switches can slip out of the "on" position, causing... Fienberg's office has said that it likely will take until late spring to sort through all of the claims it has received. Last year, GM set aside $400 million to make payments, but it conceded that could grow to $600 million. At the end of last year, Feinberg had paid out $93 million in claims, according to GM's annual report. Source: autos.winnipegfreepress.com
