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Settlement talks in a class action on behalf of women injured by allegedly defective pelvic mesh products have failed after Astora Health took a long-standing $27 million settlement offer off the table.
A foreshadowed application for a funding order in a class action that would put a lien on some group members’ homes was “entirely unprecedented and without jurisprudential basis”, retirement home provider Aveo Group has said.
QSuper has hit back at a class action over its alleged failure to notify members of changes to its premiums, saying group members failed to heed a “large font” notice of the changes and that any recoveries cannot be paid out to the law firm and funder running the litigation.
Uber has appealed a ruling that found many of its email exchanges with its lawyers were made in furtherance of offences at the centre of a class action and were not protected by legal professional privilege.
Mercedes-Benz is facing a potential class action over a recall affecting over 17,000 vehicles installed with faulty brake boosters.
The litigation funder facing a lawsuit by the applicant in a class action it financed is demanding security for legal costs because it says the applicant -- which is being chased by a law firm for more than $300,000 in fees -- may not be good for the money.
The litigation funder backing two combustible cladding class actions has sold a third of its investment in the cases to a player in the nascent secondary market for class action financing.
Fighting a class action that claims the age pension discriminates against Indigenous Australians because of differences in life expectancy, the Commonwealth says the rate of welfare dependency among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders could impact the case.
Ernst & Young has settled all claims against it in a shareholder class action alleging the Big Four accounting firm and Pitcher Partners signed off on an overly rosy year-end financial report that failed to disclose risks and impairments associated with the law firm's disastrous $1.2 billion acquisition of UK insurance claims company Quindell.
A litigation funder challenging a decision underpinning recently enacted rules that require class actions to be registered as managed investment schemes told an appeals court Wednesday the decision was plainly wrong and the regime unworkable.