Two law firms bringing competing class actions against insurance giant Allianz have proposed to resolve the duplication by jointly running just one of the cases, but the judge overseeing the litigation needs convincing, she said Friday.
A Federal Court class action against two NAB units over $6.3 billion in super funds is on hold after lawyers for the applicant filed an appeal of a ruling that found their state court proceeding had been invalidly commenced.
Australian regenerative medicine company Mesoblast faces a shareholder class action over disclosures related to its Remestemcel-L treatment for COVID-19 complications.
A judge will hear arguments by suspended lawyer Serene Teffaha, who filed a class action against the state over lockdown restrictions, over whether her clients can be made to supply their details to a Hall & Wilcox lawyer who was appointed to take over her firm.
A judge has ordered the applicant in a shareholder class action against former Arrium directors and KPMG over allegedly misleading statements made ahead of Arrium’s $754 million capital raising in 2014 to explain how the amount by which the mining company’s assets were allegedly overvalued was calculated.
The law firm behind Australia’s first privacy class action is investigating a class action over the Service NSW data breach that exposed the personal and health information of over 100,000 people.
A group of car dealers has hit a unit of car giant General Motors with a class action for allegedly breaching its contract by retiring the Holden brand in Australia last year.
The deceased leader of the notorious cult known as The Family has settled a class action by sect members who claim they were tortured and sexually abused as children in her care.
A judge has urged the parties in two pelvic mesh class actions against Boston Scientific to come up with a “pragmatic solution” to the competing proceedings filed in the Federal and NSW Supreme courts.
The lawyer who filed a class action against the state of Victoria on behalf of residents in public housing towers who were locked down during the state’s second COVID-19 wave has had her licence suspended, raising questions about the fate of the class action.