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South Korean car makers Hyundai and Kia are facing a class action investigation in Australia over cars containing potentially defective petrol engines, after agreeing to a settlement worth more than $1 billion in related US litigation last year.
A judge has approved a $52 million settlement is six class actions against car makers for allegedly selling cars fitted with deadly Takata airbags, under which individuals group members will get around $600 after $31.7 million in expenses is deducted.
Toyota has lodged an appeal of a judgment that could see it owe around $2 billion to 260,000 car owners for selling vehicles with defective diesel filters for more than they were worth.
A judge has found the lead applicant in a class action over an allegedly defective crop sprayer did not suffer any loss despite finding agricultural equipment manufacturer Hardi misled him and other farmers who bought the machine.
A class action alleging the federal government contaminated Indigenous land with toxic firefighting foam has lost a challenge to a report by a scientist who declined to find that the foam could cause adverse health effects including immunosuppression and interfere with the efficacy of vaccines.
Philips Electronics has been fined $133,200 for failing to provide timely notice to the country's health regulator of deterioration in its sleep machines, after being hit with a class action lawsuit over degrading foam in the devices.
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.