BOSTON — Representatives of some of the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers used code words to collude with competitors to divvy up market share and coordinate price increases according to a federal lawsuit. In another email, representatives from three companies talk about coordinating “polite f-u” letters in 2014 in response to a congressional probe into price increases in the generic …
The Idaho Supreme Court says a lawsuit over Idaho’s troubled public defense system can move forward against all the defendants except one: Idaho Gov. Butch Otter. The high court’s ruling, handed down Friday, reinstates the class-action lawsuit brought in 2015 by four Idaho residents who said they were denied the right to a fair trial because of Idaho’s underfunded and faulty public …
Lawyers representing the sinking San Francisco Millennium Tower homeowners’ association announced a lawsuit against the developer and builders Wednesday. The lawsuit names the developer, Millennium Partners, along with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA), the regional agency overseeing the building of the adjacent Transbay Transit Center. The suit also names the …
Dieselgate is one step closer to becoming a distant memory as Volkswagen agrees to a cash compensation for owners of 3.0-liter diesel vehicles. Volkswagen announced today that it has submitted settlement agreements with both class-action plaintiffs and the US Federal Trade Commission. The agreements are about undeclared emissions-control devices in certain vehicles equipped with a 3.0-liter …
VW owners wait for modifications to collect settlement Published: January 16, 2017 5:55 PM EST Updated: January 16, 2017 6:41 PM EST FORT MYERS, Fla. — Some Volkswagen owners are still waiting for the company to come up with an approved fix for their vehicles so they can collect from a massive class-action settlement. As part of a nearly $15 billion settlement agreement , Volkswagen agreed to …
Late on Thursday Patently Apple posted a report titled ” Apple Formally Acknowledges the iPhone 6 Plus ‘Touch Disease’ Issue and Offers Customers with this Problem Some Relief .” While Apple opened a new program to deal with the issue this week that would provide some Apple customers a bit of financial relief, I questioned whether that would be enough relief for the law firms handling the class …
Volkswagen AG and car owners will likely secure a federal judge’s final sign-off on their $14.7 billion settlement as the automaker continues to seek regulators’ approval of a fix for 482,000 pollution-spewing vehicles still on U.S. roads. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said he is “strongly” inclined to approve the settlement requiring VW to buy back cars with 2.0-liter …
Owners of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units afflicted by the alleged design defect dubbed “Touch IC Disease” won’t get much aid from the Genius Bar, but a U.S. law firm is looking to help users take Apple to court. After filing a class-action lawsuit against Apple on Saturday for not fixing iPhones with Touch IC Disease, McCuneWright LLP says it’s searching for more iPhone 6 owners who have …
Volkswagen owners can finally dump their cheatin’ cars, if they want to. The German automaker has agreed to an unprecedented U.S. settlement to make things right after admitting that it programmed about half a million of its diesel cars to cheat on emissions tests. When driven on the road, the vehicles put out levels of nitrogen oxide well above U.S. pollution standards.
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Thursday that German automaker Volkswagen AG (VW) has reached a settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), California officials and consumers over a plan to fix or buy back nearly 600,000 diesel-powered vehicles…