In an effort to crack attorney-client privilege, a plaintiffs lawyer has accused General Motors Co. and King & Spalding of conspiring to commit fraud by concealing a defect in ignition switches that led to more than 109 known deaths and hundreds of injuries over 10 years.
Texas attorney Robert Hilliard’s brief, filed on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, seeks production of documents “based on the crime-fraud exception.” It alleges that GM and the law firm “conspired to conceal a known safety defect by quietly settling death and injury cases rather than instituting a recall.”
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