A settlement fund for the benefit of more than 1,000 General Motors customers who sued over faulty ignition switches should be re-examined by a judge because the lawyer who negotiated it had a conflict of interest, another plaintiff attorney involved in the cases alleged.Robert Hilliard may have cut a deal with GM that limits the carmaker's financial risk at a series of bellwether trials over the defect, according to a filing by Lance Cooper, a Georgia lawyer who represents a number of plaintiffs whose claims are part of the consolidated case in Manhattan federal court.
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