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Monash Health and LaTrobe Regional Health Service have been hit with a class action on behalf of junior doctors in Victoria who allege they were denied pay for overtime hours worked over the past six years, the second underpayments class action filed by junior doctors in the state.
The trustee of Mayfair Group's collapsed IPO Wealth Fund has denied claims in a class action that it misled investors who lost $86 million when the fund was wound up, and says it is fully indemnified for the class action's claims under an agreement with the fund.
NSW Health has hit back at a class action accusing it of failing to pay overtime hours to junior doctors, saying that because they did not submit an overtime claim they were taken to have worked the additional hours “of their own volition”.
Hoping to avoid a lengthy trial like the 89-day hearing in the pelvic mesh class action against Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon, a judge has suggested splitting up a class action hearing over TFS Manufacturing and IVS pelvic mesh products to focus on the question of the devices' safety and efficacy first.
A $138 million class action settlement with IAG over alleged junk insurance will go ahead after a judge found he was "bereft" of power to vary his prior approval judgment and include late opt out bids by group members that threatened to derail the agreement last month.
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.