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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Class Action News 21st July 2015


Nissan car class action lawsuit settled


Nissan appears to have reached a final settlement with plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over Nissan Leaf electric-car batteries that now goes back almost three years.

The suit was filed in California in 2012 on behalf of all Leaf owners in that state and in Arizona.
Nissan was accused of not accurately describing the Leaf's real-world range in advertising.

BMW car class action lawsuit settled


BMW USA, like many other manufacturers as a matter of fact, uses demo cars for testing purposes and then sells them to ‘lucky’ customers that get a hefty discount on their purchase. However, some of them were mislead according to the US judiciary system and now BMW has to pay.

To be more precise, in September 2012, Sanjay Saini filed a case after buying a 2011 BMW 335d from a dealership in Sterling, Va. Her claim was that the car was sold to her as ‘new’, but it later came to her knowledge that the four years of Ultimate Warranty coverage started before actually taking hold of the car. As a matter of fact, they had begun the moment the 3er started being used as a demo car.

The case turned into a class-action suit that had over 104,000 members, all of them purchasing cars that were claimed to be new but came with shorter warranties. All of the autos were sold between September 28, 2006, and October 6, 2014.

LME Hong Kong Stock Exchange aluminium class action settlement


Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd (HKEx) <0388.HK) has settled two class-action lawsuits against itself and the London Metal Exchange (LME) over allegations of anti-competitive and monopolistic behaviour.
No money was paid by either side in arriving at the settlement, the HKEx-owned LME said in a statement.

Under the settlement announced by HKEx on Sunday, the plaintiffs agreed to drop the LME from appeals against a U.S. court’s decision last August dismissing them from their cases, the exchange said.
This leaves the plaintiffs free to ask the LME for publicly available data, which they were prevented from doing while the LME was a defendant in the lawsuits. LME data includes inventory levels in the warehouses it monitors.

"These are the only principal terms of the settlement," the London-based LME said.

The lawsuits, brought last year by companies in the United States, accused banks and traders of hoarding metal in LME warehouses, driving up the prices of industrial products from soft-drink cans to aeroplanes.

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