Medical device maker Bayer has successfully defended a class action over its Essure contraceptive, with a judge finding the evidence fell short of proving the device caused chronic inflammation.
A judge has ordered Honda to pay $13.6 million in damages to dealer Brighton Automotive in a suit over the car maker’s move away from a dealership model.
Power and gas company Sumo has been ordered to pay a $10 million penalty for engaging in prohibited ‘door-to-door’ phone sales, the largest penalty for breaches of Victoria’s energy laws.
A competition class action against Stanwell and CS Energy has been tossed, with a judge finding the power companies’ conduct was legitimate “profit maximisation behaviour”.
Australian fintech start-up Chippit Financial has defeated PayPal’s challenge to its bid to register ‘PayPool’ as a trade mark for a new lending product.
In the latest class action loss, a judge has said that $165 million in fees charged to members by NAB super fund trustee NULIS Nominees was corporate revenue “with which it was free to deal as it saw fit”.
A class action against NAB unit NULIS Nominees over adviser fees charged to superannuation fund members should be dismissed, a judge has found.
The judge overseeing class actions against Uber has approved a $271.8 million settlement, which includes an $82 million deduction for the funder and $39 million for the firm that ran the cases.
A defamation case over Facebook comments that described the Liverpool City Council mayor as a “grub” and a “crim” has been tossed for failing to pass the serious harm test.
A judge has rejected a shareholder’s bid to wind up investment firm Keybridge Capital, but allowed it to bring a derivative suit over a $4.75 million advance used for a director to purchase a Lake Como property.