Volkswagen Canada must pay $2.1 billion — the largest commercial settlement in the country’s history — to affected Canadian customers as part of a class-action vehicle-emissions lawsuit that started in Windsor. The eight-page decision handed down in Toronto Wednesday by Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba directs Volkswagen to pay owners and lessees of 105,000 2-litre Volkswagen and Audi …
Only seven people have opted out of a proposed $2.375-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit involving diluted chemotherapy treatment. Wednesday was the deadline for more than 1,200 patients named in the class action to opt out of the proposed settlement. Lawyer Harvey Strosberg of Stutts Strosberg LLP, the co-counsel in the lawsuit, says the majority of the patients are unopposed.
Lawyer Harvey Strosberg is encouraging his clients — diluted chemotherapy victims — to object if they’re outraged over the proposed $2.375-million class-action settlement his firm helped negotiate. “They’re my clients, I love them, even though they’re angry at me,” the prominent Windsor class-action lawyer said this week, as a Dec. 7 deadline loomed for the 1,202 members of the diluted chemo …