Opal Tower engineer WSP is battling insurers for builder Icon over coverage for the costs of a class action by residents, telling a court on Wednesday that Icon was liable for alleged structural defects in the building despite having subcontracted the structural design to WSP.
A senior barrister has sued insurer Suncorp for its alleged inadequate handling of a claim first made in 2014 relating to storm damage at his three-storey home which made him feel he was “living out a real-life version of Bill Murray’s experience in the movie Groundhog Day.”
A judge has approved a confidential settlement in a class action against KPMG and nine former Gunns Plantations directors over the failure of six managed investment schemes for eucalyptus wood in Tasmania.
Acciona has hit back at a suit brought by the entity in charge of a $511 million waste-to-energy plant south of Perth alleging it was unlawfully shut out of the project site, with the Spanish infrastructure giant saying the entity had no “unlimited right of access.”
The funder in the Opal Tower class action has appealed a judge’s decision to slash its commission for not disclosing proposed deductions from the settlement sum as percentages, telling the Full Court that group members could do “simple arithmetic”.
A ground-breaking class action has been filed in Victoria against the AFL seeking compensation for former players who sustained concussion-related injuries during games.
The wife of the late mining executive Ken Talbot wanted to “destroy” the law firm that advised her husband about his will, a court has found in awarding costs against the widow.
Shareholders have brought a class action in Australia against New Zealand-based Fletcher Building, alleging the company failed to disclose material information relating to its construction division.
Kanye West, now known as Ye, has been ordered to foot the legal bill of a small Melbourne restaurant he sued, after the lawsuit was thrown out due to the artist’s failure to meet a deadline for filing evidence.
MACH Energy has hit back at a lawsuit by mining executive Nathan Tinkler’s companies that alleges a former general manager misused confidential information to help MACH buy the lucrative Mount Pleasant coal mine.