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A judge has approved an opt-out notice in a class action against retirement home provider Aveo Group that advises of a proposed application for a controversial funding order that would put a lien on some group members homes.
Johnson & Johnson Medical and unit Ethicon have agreed to pay $300 million to settle two class actions brought by Shine Lawyers on behalf of Australian women implanted with pelvic mesh and tape devices.
A class action against cruise operator Carnival PLC over the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak aboard the Ruby Princess will ask the High Court to hear a challenge to a decision that found a class action waiver for foreign passengers was not unfair.
A judge has ordered Scenic Cruises to pay just over $10 million to travellers who were promised a “once in a lifetime cruise along the grand waterways of Europe” but were instead forced to take the bus from city to city.
Law firms Slater & Gordon and Phi Finney McDonald are seeking a 22 per cent cut of any recovery in a consolidated shareholder class action against food company Noumi and its auditor Deloitte over $590 million in accounting irregularities.
Companies associated with the wife of disgraced senior barrister Norman O'Bryan are stuck with the findings of last year's excoriating judgment against the Banksia class action legal team despite their status as third parties, a court has heard.
Following a three-week trial, Pitcher Partners has agreed to pay $41 million to settle a shareholder class action alleging the firm, along with Ernst & Young, approved an overly rosy year-end financial report related to Slater & Gordon's disastrous $1.2 billion acquisition of UK business Quindell.
Retail Food Group wants to shut down a class action brought on behalf of current and former franchisees of its Michel's Patisserie chain who claim to have suffered losses stemming from changes to the franchise giant's supply chain in 2015 and 2016.
Two insurers for Dixon Advisory have argued they should not have to disclose policies that could respond to mammoth claims in a class action against the collapsed financial services firm estimated to be worth $278 million and $463 million.
A fight has broken out between the litigation funder and the lawyers representing 15,000 seaweed farmers in a class action against oil exploration company PTTEP Australia over a spill at its Montara oil field in the Timor Sea.