$2.1B Settlement in Volkswagen Diesel Emissions Class Action Announced
On December 19, 2016, a settlement agreement was announced in the class action involving Volkswagen and consumer claims related to the 2.0L diesel emissions software matter. The matter affected approximately 105,000 vehicles across Canada and generated a high level of interest when the issue…
View the post titled $2.1B Settlement in Volkswagen Diesel Emissions Class Action AnnouncedA Case for Parent-Entity Tort Liability for Wrongful Conduct at Subsidiary Operations
The development of the common law depends on the Bar proposing something new when circumstances require. I recognize that’s not new thinking. Denning said it in 1954 and certainly better than me, in Parker: If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. …
View the post titled A Case for Parent-Entity Tort Liability for Wrongful Conduct at Subsidiary OperationsLimits to the intervention capability of the Quebec Class Action Fund
On September 7, 2016, the Superior Court of Quebec rendered an interesting judgment that clarified the limits of the power of intervention of the Fonds d’aide aux actions collectives (hereinafter referred to as the “Fonds”). The Fonds’s mission is to provide financial support to …
View the post titled Limits to the intervention capability of the Quebec Class Action FundOntario Court of Appeal Helps Ensure Conspirators are Held Accountable for their Wrongdoing
Nearly every Canadian consumer has purchased something that contains a price-fixed component. Price-fixing occurs in many industries – from components of consumer electronics to chemicals to auto parts to chocolate. Price-fixing occurs where competing companies agree to increase prices, redu…
View the post titled Ontario Court of Appeal Helps Ensure Conspirators are Held Accountable for their WrongdoingOntario Courts Ensure Access to Justice for Victims of Illegal Cartels
Four recent decisions from the Ontario courts affirm the importance of preserving remedies for plaintiffs impacted by unlawful conspiracies. The decisions relate to four separate price-fixing conspiracies involving LCD panels (used in televisions, computer monitors and notebook computers), l…
View the post titled Ontario Courts Ensure Access to Justice for Victims of Illegal CartelsMisrepresentation in Accredited Investor Prospectus Exempt Offerings in Ontario
Part I – Mind the Angle Shooters The more dangerous malefactors are the men in high places who take a good property, overcapitalize it, appraise its value at many times what it is worth, use artful publicity and market methods to beguile the public into believing the stock is worth par…
View the post titled Misrepresentation in Accredited Investor Prospectus Exempt Offerings in Ontario$4.77 million Settlement in Cooling Compressors Class Action Approved for Distribution
Settlements in the total amount of $4.77 million have been reached with the Defendants in the Cooling Compressors Class Action to resolve the litigation in its entirety. Persons in Canada who between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2008 purchased Cooling Compressors and products containing …
View the post titled $4.77 million Settlement in Cooling Compressors Class Action Approved for DistributionEmergen-C Vitamin Drink Class Action Recent Discontinuance: click here for more info
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL MEMBERS OF THE DISCONTINUANCE OF THE CLASS ACTION CONCERNING COMMENCED AGAINST PFIZER CANADA INC. Take notice that, on March 29 2016, petitioner Stéphanie Chipeur was authorized to discontinue her Motions Seeking Authorization to Institute a Class Action, dated November 2…
View the post titled Emergen-C Vitamin Drink Class Action Recent Discontinuance: click here for more infoUpdate on Environmental Class Action Lawsuits
Traditional environmental law torts of strict liability, nuisance, trespass, and negligence, particularly for historical contamination, are difficult to certify as class actions for both procedural and substantive law reasons. After a long and complex history, only one case that has been cer…
View the post titled Update on Environmental Class Action Lawsuits$4 million Settlement In Class Action Approved For Distribution
TORONTO Feb. 17, 2016 /CNW/ – Siskinds LLP of London, Ontario, James H. Brown and Associates of Edmonton, Albert and D’Arcy & Deacon LLP of Calgary, Alberta announced today the court approval of a protocol for the distribution of settlement funds in the XL Foods class action…
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