A lawsuit filed against GM claiming its faulty ignition switch was responsible for a 2013 crash has been thrown out by the judge presiding over the case.

The HEI distributor is an inductive-discharge-style ignition, but with the points replaced by a solid-state switching device called an electronic ignition-control module.

Typically, when an ignition control module of this type fails it would be one of the three drivers (transistors) within it that controls a specific ignition coil giving up.

General Motors (GM) said late Friday it is recalling another 824,000 cars because faulty ignition switches may have been used to repair the vehicles.

General Motors will pay $120 million to settle claims from dozens of states in its massive ignition switch defect scandal. The settlement announced Thursday comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ...

DETROIT - General Motors (GM) has another ignition switch problem that can cause engines to stall, but this time it was discovered before anyone got hurt. The automaker is recalling about 3,300 ...

GM has paid out more than $2.6 billion in fines and settlements since the ignition switch defect, which affected millions of vehicles, became public in 2014.

Emails seen by The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets raise questions about the timing of the automaker's recalls for faulty ignition switches. The defect has been tied to at least 32 deaths.