General Motors has so far approved 29 death claims and 27 injury claims paid from its defective ignition switch compensation fund, according to a recent report by the Detroit News.

The total number of GM ignition switch injury claims filed as of Oct. 17 reached 1,517, of which 184 represent death claims. The total for serious injury claims is 93, and less-serious injuries is 1,240. The fund is accepting claims through Dec. 31.

The families of two Wisconsin teens killed in a 2006 crash involving a Chevy Cobalt with a defective ignition switch recently accepted offers from the GM program, which is designed to compensate victims and their families for crash injuries and deaths. GM has said it expects to spend between $400 million and $600 million on claims, according to the Detroit News.

In the Wisconsin settlement, Amy Rademaker, 15, and Natasha Weigel, 18, died in October 2006 after the now-recalled 2005 Cobalt they were riding in abruptly lost power steering, and the brakes and airbags failed before the car slammed into a telephone pole and trees. The car’s 17-year-old driver, Megan Ungar-Kerns, suffered brain damage.

Rademaker died just hours after the crash while Weigel, who was in the back seat, died 11 days later from head injuries. Initially, GM did not consider Weigel’s death to have been caused by the ignition switch failure since the backseat did not have airbags.

GM has come under fire for allegedly knowing about its vehicles’ problems for at least 10 years before issuing recalls. Recalled GM brands include models of Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Saturn vehicles.

Two class action lawsuits were recently filed on behalf of 30 million GM consumers who accuse the automaker of lying about the safety of its vehicles both before and after GM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The consolidated complaints allege that more than 60 recalls affecting more than 27 million GM cars and trucks sold in the United States for model years 1997 to 2014 have caused consumers to lose value in their vehicles, according to Seattle-based law firm Hagens Berman, the co-lead counsel in the cases along with Lieff Cabraser.

The two consolidated GM class action lawsuits were filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, the same place where hundreds of ignition switch lawsuits against GM have already been consolidated.

The first class action lawsuit covers all GM vehicles sold after the company’s bankruptcy proceedings and accuses the automaker of misrepresentation, concealment and non-disclosure of a numerous serious safety defects.

The second GM class action lawsuit seeks compensation for millions of GM vehicle owners “with serious ignition-related safety defects that can cause the vehicle’s ignition switch to inadvertently move from the ‘run’ position to the ‘accessory’ or ‘off’ position during ordinary driving conditions, resulting in a loss of power, vehicle speed control and braking, as well as a failure of the vehicle’s airbags to deploy.”