{"id":4581,"date":"2024-05-20T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/chevy-bolt-owners-to-receive-settlement-checks-after-successful-class-action-suit-over-faulty-batteries\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T12:30:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:30:28","slug":"chevy-bolt-owners-to-receive-settlement-checks-after-successful-class-action-suit-over-faulty-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/chevy-bolt-owners-to-receive-settlement-checks-after-successful-class-action-suit-over-faulty-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Chevy Bolt owners to receive settlement checks after successful class-action suit over faulty batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Chevy Bolt owners are eligible for settlement checks as part of a $150 million class-action settlement with General Motors and South Korean industrial group LG over faulty batteries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to documents filed in a Michigan court Thursday, Bolt EV owners who installed software before Dec. 31, 2023 that had been designed to fix the battery issue will be eligible to receive a check for up to $1,400. Customers who sold their Bolt or terminated their leases before the software remedy was released \u2014 or ones who received a replacement battery \u2014\u00a0will receive a $700 check at minimum. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cGM, LG Energy Solution and LG Electronics have agreed to a settlement with plaintiffs to resolve class action litigation related to the Bolt EV battery recall,\u201d GM said in an emailed statement to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAs a result, Bolt owners who received a battery replacement or who have installed the latest advanced diagnostic software may qualify for compensation,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">GM began recalling Bolt EVs after receiving multiple complaints about the LG-branded batteries catching fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">The recall effort ultimately cost GM nearly $2 billion.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chevy Bolt owners are eligible for settlement checks as part of a $150 million class-action settlement with General Motors and South Korean industrial group LG over faulty batteries. According to documents filed in a Michigan court Thursday, Bolt EV owners who installed software before Dec. 31, 2023 that had been designed to fix the battery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}