General Motors' ignition switch compensation program got a surge of claims in its final days, adding more than 1,100 claims in the last week to 4,180 submissions, including 455 death claims.The program's deputy administrator, Camille Biros, said in a Detroit News interview Sunday the compensation program related to the company's delayed recall of cars with faulty ignition switches has received 4,180 total claims, up from 3,068 a week earlier. The final tally of claims may rise because any claims postmarked by Saturday will be considered by the program adminstered by compensation lawyer Ken Feinberg and his law firm.
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