Mercedes-Benz is the latest car maker to face a class action in Australia over alleged defeat devices designed to manipulate the results of regulatory diesel emissions testing.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers partner has been taken to court over her alleged involvement in a $3.3 million scheme to defraud her husband’s employer to bankroll the couple’s lavish lifestyle, which included a $200,000 Porsche and extensive renovations to their Sydney home.
Already facing one Australian class action for cheating on diesel emissions tests, Toyota unit Hino is the subject of a fresh class action probe announced Tuesday.
ASIC is seeking $7.5 million in penalties against failed ACBF Funeral Plans and parent company Youpla Group for misrepresenting to customers that it was Indigenous-owned and falsely claiming that its products were specifically beneficial to First Nations people.
Australian sports tour company FanFirm has sued US sports merchandise giant Fanatics alleging ‘flagrant’ infringement of its trade marks.
In one of the year’s biggest class action settlements, PTTEP Australasia has agreed to pay $192.5 million to settle a representative action over a 2009 oil spill that affected 15,000 Indonesian seaweed farmers.
The law firm that filed a second securities class action against failed Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY has moved swiftly to stay a competing class action brought three months ago.
A group of Lloyd’s underwriters are off the hook for financial services company EP Financial Services’ costs in an lawsuit over allegedly negligent financial advice, after an appeals court found the exclusions under the policy were valid.
The wife of a billionaire developer has lodged an appeal seeking to suppress the affidavits of a tax official in a $272 million proceeding brought by the Australian Taxation Office.
Bookmaker Sportsbet has defeated a bid to overturn a freezing order against the owner of the sportsbet.com domain name in a trade mark infringement dispute stemming from a promotion agreement.