General Motors’s compensation fund for victims of crashes involving cars with ignition switch defects drew another 57 claims in the last week, taking the tally to 4,237, the programme administrator reported.
By Friday 6 February, GM had received 462 claims for death, 282 for catastrophic injuries and 3,493 for less serious injuries requiring hospitalisation, according to lawyer Kenneth Feinberg who administers the programme for GM, Reuters reported.
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The number of claims eligible for compensation so far is 131, the report said.
Feinberg has so far determined that 52 deaths, eight severe injuries and 71 other injuries were eligible for compensation.
Another 501 claims have been ruled ineligible with 1,143 are under review. Another 1,016 lacked sufficient paperwork or evidence and 1,446 had no documentation at all.
The deadline for claims filing was 31 January but any claims postmarked by that date are eligible for review, the news agency report noted.
