Medical device manufacturer American Medical Systems has reasserted that it cannot face claims under Australian consumer laws over its allegedly defective vaginal mesh products because it only supplied the products to a US subsidiary.
The judge overseeing several class actions over the alleged use of toxic foam at government military bases has appointed a special counsel to hear the Commonwealth’s claims that it should be exempt for producing certain documents due to public interest immunity and legal professional privilege.
Three shareholder class actions against RCR Tomlinson have been allowed to continued, setting up a class action beauty contest over who will lead the litigation against the failed engineering company.
Law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has followed through on its threat to appeal a high stakes ruling that shut down its shareholder class action against AMP, along with two competing cases, after a two-day beauty parade that saw rival firm Maurice Blackburn take the prize.
While no means a flood, the class actions filed in response to the shocking evidence of misbehaviour at last year’s banking royal commission have been steadily flowing and show no signs of drying up. Here, we give you the round-up of cases launched so far, the latest developments in each, and what’s coming down the pipeline.
Group members in a class action against Johnson & Johnson unit DePuy International over allegedly defective hip implants are on track to receive 100 per cent of their claims as the $250 million settlement continues to be distributed, a court has heard.
A court has given the green light to a $1.1 million class action settlement with the owners of Sydney’s Quakers Hill Nursing Home over a fire deliberately lit by one of its employees in 2011.
Shine Lawyers and Slater & Gordon on Tuesday denied media reports that the two law firms were in merger talks or that there were any imminent plans for a union.
Publicly-traded law firm Shine Lawyers has reached a confidential agreement to settle a class action alleging it misled shareholders about the value of ongoing business activities, the first ever settlement of a class action in Queensland.
The government has won a victory following a lengthy trial in a class action brought on behalf of businesses alleging they were harmed when the Rudd Government cancelled a program that subsidised home insulation installations during the economic downturn.