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Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 06:30Modified: 05/05/2020 – 06:28 Advertising Read more Frankfurt am Main (AFP) Herbert Gilbert is just one of tens of thousands of drivers who have sued Volkswagen for cheating emissions tests, but he will make legal history Tuesday when his “dieselgate” case becomes the …
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BERLIN: Volkswagen has agreed to pay $670 million in compensation to 200,000 car owners in the biggest German lawsuit over the group’s “dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal, the company said Monday.Owners will shortly receive a binding agreement from Volkswagen and have two weeks to review the …
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BRUSSELS – In a case that could open the floodgates to multimillion-dollar cross-border lawsuits against automakers involved in the 2015 Dieselgate scandal, a senior European Union judge says car buyers should be able to sue Germany-based Volkswagen from a court in neighboring Austria. The judge, …
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Motorists locked in a legal battle with Volkswagen over the ‘dieselgate’ scandal have moved closer to a settlement worth as much as £270million, after a High Court judge ruled software installed in thousands of its diesel vehicles was a ‘defeat device’. In what could be the largest consumer action …
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Image copyright Reuters Thousands of UK motorists have won the first stage of a High Court action against Volkswagen over the installation of emissions cheating devices in its diesel vehicles. It follows a preliminary hearing in December, when the court was asked whether software installed in the …
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FILE PHOTO: Protests against Germany’s “Dieselgate” in front of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure where ministers and car executives hold a meeting to agree ways to cut inner-city pollution to try to stave off bans on diesel cars and restore the tarnished reputation …
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Volkswagen reached a “comprehensive agreement” with the German consumer federation VZBV regarding a compensation settlement over the company’s 2015 emission’s scandal, a court in the central German city of Braunschweig announced on Friday. Some 260,000 German customers who were affected by the …
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Four and a half years after the Volkswagen Dieselgate broke, the company is still facing scrutiny on two continents. In its home country Germany on Friday, the Volkswagen Group agreed to pay a settlement of nearly $1 billion to hundreds of thousands of owners who argued their cars lost value after …
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Toronto Judge Enzo Rodinelli gave the German carmaker 30 days to pay the unprecedented fine worth $196.5 million Canadian dollars, ($150 million, €136 million), a sum prosecutor Tom Lemon said was 26 times greater than previous environmental offences in Canada. The court’s ruling followed VW guilty …
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Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn may get to keep $12 million in bonuses sought in regards to charges of fraud, embezzlement, and violating competition law brought on by German prosecutors in April 2019, as a German judge is having doubts about the allegations. The charges are related to …
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