The corporate regulator has taken MLC Limited to court, alleging the insurer’s failure to implement proper systems and controls over a more than 20 year period caused $17.5 million in harm to over a quarter million consumers.
Former Labor MP Craig Thomson has been arrested and charged with reaping more than $2 million from facilitating more than 130 fraudulent visa applications.
A former executive of hospital operator Healthe Care has been sentenced and fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to one charge of insider trading for acquiring a large number of the company’s shares while in possession of inside information regarding plans to acquire a rival hospital operator.
NSW Police may be hit with a class action for allegedly subjecting attendees of the Splendour in the Grass music festival to “invasive and traumatic” strip searches.
Logistics company GetSwift says it is considering an appeal of an 859-page judgment which lambasted the company and its directors’ “public relations-driven approach” to announcements on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Lithium producer Vulcan Energy has won a court injunction blocking Beijing-based short seller J Capital from releasing a critical report on the Perth-based company for one week.
Former Quantum Resources CEO and director Avrohom Kimelman has been sentenced after being convicted on charges of insider trading and conspiring to manipulate the market in shares of the company, now known as Nova Minerals.
Gadens has joined the salary hike frenzy spreading across the Australian legal market, announcing it will increase pay for all lawyers by 15 per cent.
Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon will now be on the hook for damages to 11,000 women implanted with defective pelvic mesh devices, after the High Court declined to hear its appeal of a ruling that found it failed to adequately warn about the devices’ risks.
US-based facial recognition software company Clearview AI has been ordered to cease collecting facial images from individuals in Australia and destroy all the data it has collected within the country.