No worries if you have a GM car warranty

June 2, 2009 1:33 PM PT

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General Motors has received permission from bankruptcy court to make good on payments for company-backed warranty repairs. The giant automaker, which filed for Chapter 11 yesterday, received the approval for the payments from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, thus eliminating a worry for consumers with cars still under warranty.

The company had already told dealers yesterday to go ahead with the repairs, assuming the approval would be forthcoming.

The court action also provides for warranty payments on new vehicles sold while the company is in bankruptcy.

-- David Colker

Money & Company

David Colker

David Colker previously wrote and edited obituaries – a beat perhaps foreshadowed by being on the Timothy Leary death watch in 1996 when he took the assignment so seriously he was at Leary’s bedside when he died. He left The Times in 2015.

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