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Firm to drop class action against Philips over recalled sleep apnea devices
Class Actions 2022-12-20 4:08 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Philips Electronics will not face a class action in Australia over recalled sleep apnea machines that contained a foam component that could  degrade and cause consumers to inhale dangerous chemicals, after the law firm running the litigation decided to drop the case.

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Insurer Bond & Credit Company fires cross-claims at Greensill
Insurance 2022-12-20 2:58 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Insurer Bond & Credit Company is seeking to join Greensill Group to three lawsuits over the financing firm’s $1.7 billion collapse in March 2020, while Greensill has foreshadowed its own cross-claims against Insurance Australia Group.

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Pokemon No! Gaming company sues over unauthorised NFTs
Intellectual Property 2022-12-20 5:27 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The Pokemon Company has taken an Australian business to court for allegedly threatening to release Pokemon non-fungible tokens for use in an augmented reality game without the copyright owner’s permission.

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‘Predatory and flagrant’: Debt collector A&M Group to pay $800,000 in ASIC case
Financial Services 2022-12-20 3:00 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has ordered debt collection agency A&M Group to pay $800,000 after it allegedly harassed and coerced debtors by repeatedly contacting family, friends and employers and claiming they could face imprisonment.

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Class action by NSW local councils against insurer JLT dismissed by court
Insurance 2022-12-19 4:58 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has thrown out a long-running class action on behalf of 20 local councils in NSW alleging insurer JLT Risk Solutions charged them hundreds of millions of dollars in excessive premiums over nine years.

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Shine stuck running Blue Sky, EY class action with rival firm
Securities 2022-12-19 5:32 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A law firm has lost its bid to challenge a court order that it join forces with a competing firm in an investor class action against Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY.

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Albanese government to abolish ‘irreversibly damaged’ AAT
Courts 2022-12-16 1:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The Albanese government has vowed to abolish and replace the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, saying it has been “fatally compromised” by the former government which allegedly appointed political allies who had no expertise.

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HarperCollins can make ‘bad reputation’ claims in deep sleep defamation case
Defamation 2022-12-16 9:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A psychiatrist that sued HarperCollins for defamation over a book on the use of deep sleep therapy at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s has lost his bid to disallow the publisher’s claim that any damage he suffered was mitigated by his bad reputation.

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ACCC accuses wealth guru Dominique Grubisa of misleading students
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-12-16 9:53 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken wealth guru Dominique Grubisa and her business DG Institute to court for allegedly misleading students of their real estate investing and wealth management programs.

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Law firm bows out of contest to run class actions against Apple, Google
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-12-15 5:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A law firm has dropped plans to bring a second set of class actions alleging Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating their app stores, but will act as an “agent” for the first-to-file firm.

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