Payments provider Tyro has been hit with a class action over a days-long terminal outage that left many businesses unable to accept payments.
In a win for a long-running class action against US auto giant Ford on behalf of owners of 70,000 vehicles, a judge has found that cars installed with PowerShift transmissions were defective.
Payments provider Tyro is facing two potential class actions over a days-long terminal outage that left many businesses unable to accept payments, the first of which is expected to be filed “imminently”.
Kia Motors is facing an investigation into a possible class action on behalf of car owners whose vehicles were recalled due to the risk that they could catch fire when parked.
A $138 million class action settlement with IAG over alleged junk insurance will go ahead after a judge found he was “bereft” of power to vary his prior approval judgment and include late opt out bids by group members that threatened to derail the agreement last month.
A group of late opt out notices by group members in a class action over IAG insurance, who were egged on in part by a ‘corporate warfare’ campaign by claims management service Claimo, could result in IAG pulling the plug on a $138 million settlement.
South Korean car maker Hyundai is facing a possible class action after it recalled over 90,000 cars earlier this month over safety concerns.
Concerns behind criticism that courts aren’t equipped to assess a class action funder’s commission are exaggerated, and the fixing by judges of reasonable remuneration, at least in other cases, is nothing new, a Federal Court judge has said.
A judge has rebuked the “procedural vulgarities” plaguing a referee’s supplementary report in a class action against Toyota over allegedly defective vehicles and has called for the process to be simplified.
Law firm Clayton Utz and litigation funder Investor Claim Partners have joined forces to bring a class action against insurers who have denied business interruption claims by business impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.