Mitsubishi Motors has lost its legal challenge to a decision that found it made misleading fuel efficiency representations on a label affixed to the windshield of a Triton 4WD sold in 2017.
The law firm whose probe into allegedly defective diesel particulate filters in Toyota cars has led to a verdict worth as much as $2 billion against the car maker has launched a class action investigation into diesel particulate filter issues with two models of Isuzu utes.
Failed neobank Volt is facing an investor class action investigation over representations made in a series of funding rounds that raised $219 million before announcing last week that it would shut its doors.
Mercedes-Benz is facing a potential class action over a recall affecting over 17,000 vehicles installed with faulty brake boosters.
Toyota could owe close to $2 billion in compensation to 260,000 car owners after a judge found that diesel filters installed in its Hilux, Fortuner and Prado models were defective and that the cars were sold for more than they were worth.
Calling it the “elephant in the room”, a judge overseeing a class action against Tyro over a major EFTPOS outage last year has said a dispute over who is eligible to join the case needs to be hashed out before retailers are notified of the proceedings.
Mitsubishi has denied class action allegations that it made misleading fuel efficiency representations on labels affixed to the windshields of over 70,000 Triton Utes, and says it can’t be sued under the Australian Consumer Law because the labels were required by law.
Fintech Tyro has hit back at a class action brought on behalf of retailers who were unable to process payments because of a days-long terminal outage, arguing they should have accepted cash while their EFTPOS machines were down.
Fearing passage of a contentious bill in parliament that threatens to curb open class actions, plaintiffs law firms and funders have raced to court with new cases in the past two weeks.
Japanese car maker Mitsubishi Motors has been hit with a class action for allegedly making misleading fuel efficiency representations on over 70,000 Triton Utes sold in Australia since 2015.