--- description: Lara Gass, Virginia Law Student and Victim of GM's Negligence title: Lara Gass, Virginia Law Student and Victim of GM's Negligence image: https://www.cscsvirginia.com/images/blog/GM-ignition.jpg --- # Lara Gass, Virginia Law Student and Victim of GM’s Negligence * Last Updated: September 4, 2024 * Reading Time: 2 minutes Trusted Content ![090424_CSCS_APE30](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/090424_CSCS_APE30-r7ld7n5zxjd9ezimssquc85jvnm28x0iit481i4iwo.jpg "090424_CSCS_APE30") Legally Reviewed by Allan Siegel Updated 2 years ago [Home](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/) » [Recent Posts](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/blog/) » Lara Gass, Virginia Law Student and Victim of GM’s Negligence ![](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/toplawyer.png) [ ![Best Law Firms - Regional Tier 1 Badge](https://www.bestlawyers.com/Badges/Metro/35728/17508/15/washington-d-c/O/Detail.png "Best Law Firms - Regional Tier 1 Badge") ](https://www.bestlawfirms.com/firms/chaikin-sherman-cammarata-siegel/35728/US) ![](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Artboard-10.png) ![](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1.png) ![](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Artboard-12.png) ![](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Artboard-14.png) ![](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/TopLawyers24_t-300x185-1.png) ![](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Artboard-15.png) What's On This Page [Case Results](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/case-results/) $18.8 Million * Car Crash $2 Million * Car Crash $1.9 Million * Car Crash $1.37 Million * Car Crash $1.1 Million * Car Crash $1 Million * Car Crash [View All Practice Areas](https://chaikinandsherman.com/practice-areas/) [Testimonials](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/blog/testimonials-hub/) [ They were adamant about getting me the best settlement. 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Did The Accident Occur In the Last Two Years?YesNo Share Brief Description of the Incident\* ![](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Car-Crashes-Image-Overlay.png) Watch our attorneys explain how they fight for car accident victims across DC, Maryland, and Virginia. With over $1 billion recovered, our team knows how to build a winning case — from investigation through trial. Video Transcript **Speakers:** Ira Sherman, Joseph Cammarata, Stephen Ollar, Allan Siegel **Ira Sherman (00:02):** I would say that Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata and Siegel has a completely different outlook on cases that other people think are garden variety automobile accidents, because to the person who is involved in that accident, that’s not garden variety, that’s altering their life. **Joseph Cammarata (00:21):** First of all, we don’t advertise. People come to us by word of mouth, either from defense lawyers, from insurance companies, from colleagues at the bar. They know that we have decades of experience in the personal injury field. They know that what we bring to bear is a group of lawyers that work and non-lawyers that work as a team to make sure we understand what the nature and the extent of the injury is. We make sure we understand and can express to a third party just what those injuries are, and we work to obtain the most compensation that we can for an individual. **Stephen Ollar (01:04):** What we do a lot of is discovery, not just discovery of the facts of the case, but discovery about insurance. It may be that the individual was operating the vehicle for an employer, and if they were acting with what we call the course and scope of their employment, then there could be potentially additional coverage that would cover a person for those injuries. **Allan Siegel (01:27):** We’ve been handling car accident cases since Don Chaikin founded this firm over 50 years ago. Since we spend a lot of time and we have a lot of those cases, we have developed a level of experience and knowledge that I think is very unique in our field. There aren’t many law firms who can say that they’ve been doing this type of work for over 50 years. **Ira Sherman (01:52):** I care enough to look to determine who this person is and how it affected them, and that takes up a lot of my conversation with our clients. Three days. That is how many days after Lara Gass received the recall notice for her 2006 Saturn Ion, that she was killed in an auto accident when she crashed into a tractor-trailer in Virginia. Ms. Gass, a third-year honors student and law review editor at Washington & Lee University School of Law, in Lexington, Virginia, was on the way to her internship with a federal judge. The accident occurred on March 18, 2014, on Interstate 81, and the police initially determined the icy highway as the cause, but recently Ms. Gass’ family received a payout offer from the victim compensation fund setup by [General Motors. ](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/2014/07/gm-victim-dany-dubuc-marquis/)You see the[ recall notice ](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/2015/06/new-nhtsa-administrator-vows-to-take-aggressive-action-about-slow-recalls/)that Ms. Gass received was for the problem that has drawn national attention and resulted in millions of vehicles being recalled – the defective ignition switch that could shut off power and disable the power steering, brakes, and air brakes. **Ms. Gass is the first known death to have occurred since GM disclosed the defect and started recalling cars.**![GM Ignition Switch Defect](https://www.cscsvirginia.com/images/blog/GM-ignition.jpg) Ms. Gass’ family is among the first to receive a payment offer from [GM’s compensation fund](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/2014/07/gm-victims-amy-rademaker-and-natasha-weigel/), but that has not stopped her parents from asking **why GM has not done more to get these defective and deadly vehicles off the road**. To date, GM’s only solution has been for people to drive the defective cars with only the ignition key in the ignition, with no key fobs or other keys attached. The driver’s side of Ms. Gass’ car was so badly destroyed and burnt in the collision that no one was able to determine if she had followed this advice following learning of the recall. This is despite the fact that the fund manager, Kenneth R. Feinberg has already determine that 21 death claims are eligible under the fund, 50 percent more than the 13 deaths GM had acknowledged. He is still reviewing more than 120 death claims and 500 injury claims, meaning that the number of deaths caused by the defect is likely to continue to increase. Hundreds of thousands of these defective and deadly cars are still out on the road, with the drivers often unaware of the danger posed to themselves and others on the road. Ms. Gass’ father recently saw a woman at a gas station getting into a Saturn Ion holding a key chain with several keys. He took the time to stop her and tell the story of his daughter, to make sure she was aware of the recall and the danger it posed. As[ personal injury attorneys](https://www.chaikinandsherman.com/2008/03/learning-about-a-lawsuit/) who serve Northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the attorneys at Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata, and Siegel, P.C. have spent decades fighting to hold companies accountable for the defective and potentially hazardous products that release to the public. Our personal injury attorneys handle product liability and product defect cases of all kinds. If you believe that you or someone you love may been hurt by a defective vehicle, defective product, or someone’s negligent conduct, please call the attorneys at Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata, and Siegel, P.C. 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