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Search every verified Darryl Lewis interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2015 appearance, attorney Darryl Lewis discussed negligence and product defect law, using General Motors' ignition switch recall as an example. Lewis stated that negligence occurs when someone fails to use appropriate care to protect public safety, and that a product is defective if it is unreasonably dangerous to users or bystanders. He said that General Motors had a defective ignition switch in older models such as the Cobalt, which could cause the vehicle to shut off, lose power steering, and experience brake failure, and that many people died as a result. Lewis also said that General Motors knew about the problem as early as 2004 but covered it up and did not disclose it to the public. He noted that Congress launched an investigation and that former federal prosecutor Anton Valukis was assigned to the case. Lewis described a specific case in which a young girl died due to the defect, and said that the lawyer hired by her family discovered that General Motors had known about the issue for approximately ten years without taking action.
“Negligence is a law when someone is negligent and they don't use the appropriate care to protect the safety of the public, that individual is negligent and that individual has broken the law.”
“When a product maker makes a product and that product is unreasonably dangerous to the person using the product or even a person that's near someone who is using the product and that product hurts or injures someone, that product is unreasonably dangerous and it's defective.”
“If a company manufactures a product that has a defect in it that makes that product unreasonably dangerous, that is against the law and it breaks the law.”
“One of our biggest product makers in America and in the world, General Motors, had a product in some of their older model cars, the Cobalt, that had ignition switches that were defective.”
Daryl Lewis, Florida accident attorney, discusses the discovery of a defect in GM's ignition switch through the investigation of a ...
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