Two class actions against Victorian aged care providers on behalf of families of residents who died due to alleged failures during the COVID-19 pandemic have appealed a ruling that rejected their bid for insurance and financial information to assist in mediation.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told a trial judge that superannuation trustee Diversa canāt hide behind outsourcing arrangements to explain its alleged failures to oversee a now-banned financial adviser accused of luring vulnerable customers into signing up to Diversa accounts.
An alternative therapies clinic in Victoria has been hit with $3 million in penalties for allegedly promoting āpseudo-scientificā treatments to vulnerable people with chronic illnesses in posts on social media and its website.