A lawyer for General Motors told a Southern District jury Tuesday that there were no injuries, no real auto damage and no liability for the carmaker in the case of Dionne Spain, who claimed a defective ignition switch caused her vehicle to shut off and crash on a New Orleans bridge in 2014.
Attorney Mike Brock, defending GM, said the evidence in the two-week trial showed without question that black ice on the Crescent City Connection Bridge caused Spain’s 2007 Saturn Sky to lose control on Jan. 24, 2014. He urged jurors to dismiss the plaintiff’s arguments as speculative.
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