The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group hit hundreds of thousands of customers with cash advance fees after providing them with incorrect account balances, and the Big Four bank has still not rectified the problem, ASIC alleges in new civil penalty proceedings.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has fired off a lawsuit against four drug companies for allegedly infringing one of its patents for biologic Enbrel by selling a biosimilar of the blockbuster arthritis drug in Australia.
Apple is “unlikely” to avoid production of the source code for its Touch ID and Face ID technology to an Australian non-practicing entity that has sued the Silicon Valley company for patent infringement, a judge has said.
Settlement talks in three class actions on behalf of women injured by allegedly defective pelvic mesh products have progressed “substantially”, a court has heard.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken Honda Australia to court, alleging the car maker made false or misleading representations to customers about two former authorised dealerships.
The High Court has declined special leave to a class action to challenge a ruling that found dam operator Seqwater was not liable for the 2011 Queensland floods, after the state of Queensland and subcontractor Sunwater agreed to pay $440 million last year to settle their share of the liability in the long-running case.
The maker of the popular Invisalign dental aligners may soon face a cross-claim from competitor SmileDirectClub, which it sued for allegedly misleading consumers about the cost and efficacy of its direct-to-consumer teeth alignment kits.
The structural engineer behind Sydney’s Opal Tower has taken builder Icon’s insurers to court, arguing they should cover its costs in a class action brought on behalf of residents of the ill-fated building and related litigation.
Group members in a class action by Papua New Guinea workers against labour hire firm CoreStaff would get less than half of a $6.4 million settlement if the funder that backed the case seeks a common funder order for a 35 per cent commission.
The High Court will hear a challenge by Western Power to an appeals court judgment which found that the state-owned electricity supplier breached its duty of care to inspect power poles on private land and was partly liable for property damage from the 2014 Perth Hills bushfire.