A man who claims mould in his Cadillac SUV caused permanent injuries that left him suffering chronic depression and unable to work is suing General Motors and the dealer which supplied the vehicle, Bloomberg News reported.
Timothy Everett Greene#;s lawsuit says faulty weather-stripping in the 1999 Cadillac Escalade let rain water leak in, allowing mould to grow and causing depression, memory loss, tremors and breathing problems, Bloomberg said.
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Bloomberg added that the suit says that Greene#;s GM dealer in Watauga, North Carolina, failed to fix the vehicle and offered him a less-expensive SUV as a replacement.
GM spokesman Jay Cooney told Bloomberg that the company isn’t responsible for Greene’s illness.
“This is the only lawsuit of its kind that we’ve ever received,” Cooney said. “So, people can decide for themselves if this is a problem with 90,000 Escalades,” he reportedly told Bloomberg News.
