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A £193M settlement has been reached between Volkswagen and around 91,000 claimants in a U.K. group action over the carmaker’s emissions scandal. The claim, which should now result in each car owner receiving around £2,100, was backed by litigation funders Therium and North Wall Capital. Therium, the largest backers, funded claimants represented by Slater & Gordon, whilst North Wall financed PGMBM claimants. Leigh Day did not have any litigation funding, instead working on a conditional fee agreement.
Lawyers chasing personal injury firms over the deductions from former clients’ damages have been handed a huge boost after a UK costs judge rejected an application by the law firm Slater & Gordon to have claims from its former clients stayed. The cases centre around the so-called 'secret' profits received by the firm as commissions from ATE insurance premiums. There are likely to be hundreds of other similar cases pending this decision against other PI firms.
ICP Funding Pty Ltd, an authorised representative of CASL, is supporting a class action against Insurance Australia Limited, trading as ‘CGU Insurance’ (CGU), on behalf of business owners with CGU business interruption insurance who have suffered losses to their business losses arising from the the COVID-19 pandemic. The class action will be run by Slater & Gordon Lawyers.

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