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Brooke Melton, 29, died allegedly because of the General Motors\u2019 ignition switch flaw. Her case had been pending for a period of time when it was settled by General Motors in October 2013. The settlement was reached before General Motors<\/a> was found to have been downplaying and otherwise concealing the ignition switch problems from consumers and lawyers involved in these tragic cases.<\/p>\n

Although the Melton case was settled, the Melton family lawyers want to reopen the case and show that General Motors was guilty of fraudulent concealment regarding the switch problem. If the Meltons are successful in reopening this case, other settled injury or death cases arising from the ignition switch defect may be reopened for further consideration.<\/p>\n

Today the lawsuits or claims management of the many ignition switch injury cases are being handled by attorney Kenneth Feinberg<\/a>, whose group has settled hundreds of the GM death and injury claims from crashes that were caused by the ignition switch defect.<\/p>\n

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Brooke Melton, 29, died allegedly because of the General Motors\u2019 ignition switch flaw. Her case had been pending for a period of time when it was settled by General Motors in October 2013. The settlement was reached before General Motors was found to have been downplaying and otherwise concealing the ignition switch problems from consumers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,74,30,75,76,151,132,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-auto-defect-litigation","category-experts","category-product-defect-litigation","category-product-liability","category-punitive-damages","category-recalled-products","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"\nSettled General Motors Ignition Defect Lawsuit May Come Back to be Reopened — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Brooke Melton, 29, died allegedly because of the General Motors\u2019 ignition switch flaw. 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