GM Ignition Payout Cancels Trial Over Father of Five's Death
- First two trials, both won by GM, didn't involve fatalities
- James Yingling III died in a 2013 crash in Pennsylvania
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After two straight victories in test trials over a deadly ignition switch defect in millions of vehicles, General Motors Co. settled a case that was set set to go before a jury next month, avoiding potentially emotional testimony about the death of a father of five children.
GM’s confidential settlement with the estate of James Yingling III, a young Pennsylvania man whose life was cut short after 17 days in a coma, was revealed Thursday in a letter to U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan.