A settlement offer promising swift payment that was sent to class members in a lawsuit against Powercor Australia over the 2018 St Patrick’s Day bushfires in Victoria was misleading, a judge has found.
Facing the possibility of more class actions related its use of allegedly toxic firefighting foam at military bases throughout Australia, the Commonwealth has turned to one of the country’s largest firms for its defence in the two most recently filed cases.
Lawyers wants to expand the class action brought against the Ford Motor Company of Australia over allegedly defective Powershift transmissions, seeking court approval to increase the class size and bring new unconscionable conduct claims.
Six major car companies indicated Tuesday they were open to a quick settlement of class actions brought on behalf of potentially hundreds of thousands of Australian drivers whose cars were fitted with defective and deadly Takata airbags.
A judge has refused a bid by two Australian companies to shut down a long-running wrongful death case in the US brought by the families of 15 people killed in an air crash near the Lockhart River in North Queensland in May 2005.
Ethicon told the Full Federal Court on Monday that the judge overseeing the marathon class action against it over allegedly defective vaginal mesh devices got it wrong when she reset the dates for inclusion in the class.
Pharmaceutical and life sciences giant Bayer is facing a potential class action in Australia over its birth control device Essure, which can allegedly cause nickel poisoning and other severe complications.
Shine Lawyers has filed a class action against the Department of Defence on behalf of the town of Katherine alleging it has been “devastated” by exposure to toxic chemicals from a nearby DoD base that have been linked to certain cancers and immune dysfunction.
The judge overseeing a class action against Johnson & Johnson over allegedly defective vaginal mesh products has asked the applicants to weigh in on a recent UK High Court ruling that found there must be an abnormal risk in order for a product to be considered defective.
Sydney’s Liverpool council has reached a proposed settlement with residents who claim their properties were harmed when soil containing asbestos was dumped near nature strips around their properties.