Class action
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Pharmaceuticals
Class action looms for these popular over-the-counter medicines
After a landmark $US425 million settlement in the United States, the drugs are being investigated in Australia over alleged links to stomach cancer and kidney damage.
- by Kayla Olaya
Latest
Former top barrister Norman O’Bryan charged with fraud over class action scheme
The former senior counsel, from one of Victoria’s notable legal families, is alleged to have rorted claimants in the Banksia Securities class action scheme out of millions of dollars.
- by Sarah Danckert
Lawyers mull class action over Rio Tinto sexual harassment claims
Two years after a damning report into sexual discrimination, assault and bullying at Rio Tinto was released, an investigation into the claims could lead to a lawsuit.
- by Claire Ottaviano
Opinion
General insurance
Pumping insurance premiums: Are loyalty discounts a mug’s game?
Insurance giant IAG has been accused of telling customers they were receiving loyalty discounts when it wasn’t cheaper insurance at all.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Pay
‘It was never about the money’: NSW’s junior doctors win $230m payout
At the end of a 100-hour week, Dr Amireh Fakhouri was too exhausted to drive home. Now she has helped win record backpay for 20,000 colleagues.
- by Angus Thomson
Uber to pay $272 million to Australian taxi operators
It is the fifth-largest class action settlement in Australian legal history and comes after a protracted five-year legal battle.
- by David Swan and Rachael Dexter
‘It messed me up’: why Jasmin joined the McDonald’s class action
Employers have been put on notice as a bill criminalising wage theft passes parliament in the same week McDonald’s and KFC were hit with class action lawsuits.
- by Amber Schultz
McDonald’s hit with $100m class action for allegedly asking staff to work for free
Thousands of current and former McDonald’s staff across six years were asked to do ‘pre-shift checks’ and tasks after work for no pay, the union is arguing.
- by Jessica Yun
WA government offers historic apology on Aboriginal stolen wages
Laws that existed until the 1970s, ostensibly to protect Aboriginal people, instead resulted in hardship and exploitation, WA Premier Roger Cook said.
- by Hamish Hastie
‘$800 million in losses’: Trading house hit with class action on behalf of 20,000 Australians
A new class action alleges IG Markets sold high-risk products to consumers without adequate disclosures. The firm is contesting the claim.
- by Sarah Danckert
Pain, health problems: Patrice Turner wishes she’d never used Essure, trial told
The lead plaintiff in the class action involving the controversial contraceptive device said she was given the impression the procedure was “safe and uncontroversial”. But she claims it the Essure device instead left her bleeding and in pain.
- by Aisha Dow
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