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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.
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.
A judge has awarded a Queensland motor vehicle assessor $18,400 in damages in a class action against Toyota over allegedly defective diesel filters in its cars that could see the automotive giant owe close to $2 billion to 260,000 car owners.
Philips Electronics has hit back at a class action over recalled sleep apnea machines that contained a foam component that could allegedly degrade and cause consumers to inhale dangerous chemicals, saying the devices were not defective when they were sold.
Settlement talks in three class actions on behalf of women injured by allegedly defective pelvic mesh products have progressed “substantially”, a court has heard.
An additional 1,200 women who were implanted with defective pelvic mesh devices will be eligible for compensation after Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon agreed that findings in an earlier class action which it unsuccessfully fought all the way to the High Court should apply to a follow-on class action.
The structural engineer behind Sydney's Opal Tower plans to drag insurer Tokio Marine into a lawsuit against two of Icon's insurers, after discovering another $50 million policy that responds to claims in a class action brought by apartment owners.
Mercedes-Benz will defend ACCC proceedings alleging it exposed consumers to serious injury or death by failing to comply with obligations under a compulsory recall of potentially deadly Takata airbags by arguing the recall was invalid.
Settlement talks in a class action brought by Shine Lawyers against Astora Women's Health on behalf of women injured by allegedly defective pelvic mesh products are "well advanced", while mediation in two similar actions is ongoing, a court has heard.
An upcoming three-month trial in a class action against agrochemical giant Monsanto has been vacated after the applicant's key expert withdrew from the case.