Embattled cruise operator Royal Caribbean has launched legal action against victims of the White Island volcano eruption that killed 22 people last year, aiming to stop them seeking damages in the US, where they reside.
Major fertility clinic Monash IVF has been hit with a class action on behalf of at least 100 men and women demanding damages for the destruction of potentially viable embryos.
A unit of Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay around $40 million in legal costs to the lead applicants in a class action over pelvic mesh implants after a judge dismissed the company’s bid to stay the costs until after a high profile appeal is heard next year.
A judge has approved an application to join the insurer of a former doctor into a class action seeking compensation for defective pelvic mesh implants and wants to fast-track the matter for trial next year.
A class action alleging a national personal injury firm overcharged clients will be discontinued after the lawyer behind the case, who failed in his bid to send a notice to group members soliciting funds, said he was not prepared to run the proceedings on a no win, no fee basis.
Slater & Gordon has settled a lawsuit brought by a former senior solicitor alleging he was fired after making complaints about the law firm’s arrangement with a third-party funder for personal injury clients.
A Sydney-based law firm is conducting a class action investigation into medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific’s pelvic mesh products, adding to the growing list of companies facing lawsuit by women who claim they experienced pain and other adverse symptoms due to the implants.
A judge due to hear a high profile appeal by Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon has expressed confusion about the grounds on which the medical device maker is challenging a landmark judgment putting it on the hook for potentially hundreds of million of dollars in damages over faulty pelvic mesh implants.
Medical device maker Covidien has lost a bid to have the applicant in a product liability class action over allegedly defective pelvic mesh front $300,000 as security for its legal costs in the event it wins the case.
A Victoria Supreme Court judge has given the greenlight to a $5.7 million settlement in a class action brought by those injured during a 2016 stampede at the Falls Music and Arts Festival.