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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The consequences of the “Dieselgate” scandal cost Daimler up to €1.5 billion ($1.66 billion) last year, the German carmaker announced on Wednesday. The Stuttgart-based maker of Mercedes-Benz said in a statement that it expects its earnings before interest and taxes
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