Law Firms

Queensland government-owned water services provider Sunwater has lost a bid to overturn a judgment letting insurer Liberty Mutual Insurance off the hook for its share of a $440 million settlement in the Queensland floods class action.

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.

Relatives of race car driver Max Twigg are fighting Pitcher Partners’ bid to have a $127 million lawsuit dismissed as an abuse of process, rejecting the accounting firm’s argument that the proceedings were deliberately delayed for strategic reasons.

In only the second case of its kind, ASIC has taken non-bank lender Firstmac to court over alleged breaches of design and distribution obligations in relation to its High Livez managed investment scheme.

Competition among class action law firms is expected to heat up next year as veteran lawyer Jan Saddler departs Shine Lawyers to start her own firm.

Gaming company Konami will cough up $35.9 million dollars to rival company Aristocrat Technologies next year, eight years after a judge found that it had violated Aristocrat’s patent for a slot machine with an improved jackpot feature.

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.

ASIC has filed a lawsuit against Finder Wallet, a subsidiary of comparison website Finder.com, alleging the company breached various requirements in relation to its crypto product Finder Earn.

The High Court won’t hear an appeal by payday loan providers Cigna and BHF seeking to challenge a Full Court judgment that found they can’t dodge the obligations contained in the National Credit Code through their lending model.

The former chief executive officer of the Sydney Flames has filed proceedings against the owner of the women’s basketball team, Hoops Capital, alleging she was sacked after complaining about a lack of resources for the team and a “boys’ club” culture.