The latest bellwether trial in the General Motors ignition switch litigation has gone in the automaker's favor, after a verdict was handed up in a Manhattan federal courtroom.

Plaintiff Dennis Ward's suit against GM, in which he alleged that a faulty ignition switch in his 2009 Chevrolet HHR caused him to rear-end another vehicle in 2014 in Tucson, Arizona, was the seventh federal bellwether trial and the third case in which a jury found for the defendant.

Ward says that prior to the accident his vehicle lost power and thus he could not use his brakes or steer to avoid the vehicle in front of him. He suffered a permanent leg injury in the accident.