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The Dieselgate emissions scandal
Law360, London (March 24, 2021, 3:48 PM GMT) — Car owners have sued Mercedes maker Daimler AG in London for allegedly misleading the market about excessive carbon emissions from its diesel cars, in what lawyers said was the first lawsuit filed against
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A law firm representing the UK owners of Mercedes-Benz cars has started formal legal action seeking compensation from the German carmaker for allegedly installing illegal emissions cheating devices on its diesel vehicles. Hagens Berman UK, an offshoot of a US
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Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz parent, agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in its diesel cheating case. The deal was approved by a federal judge today. A federal judge in Washington, D.C. gave final approval to a settlement that will cost Daimler
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Law360, London (March 10, 2021, 1:42 PM GMT) — Plaintiffs’ firm Hagens Berman said on Wednesday that it has secured funding to fuel a £1 billion ($1.4 billion) consumer group action against Daimler AG for allegedly misleading the market about excessive carbon
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The Mercedes emissions scandal continues to take the limelight after more of its “cleanest and most efficient” engines were found to have emissions cheating software. The car maker is one of the latest manufacturers to be plunged into the ‘dieselgate’
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What has Vauxhall done? Vauxhall is the latest car manufacturer to be caught up in the Dieselgate scandal after the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) found software designed to cheat emissions tests in certain Vauxhall diesel models. The regulator
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WASHINGTON — Volkswagen AG and German auto supplier Bosch on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower-court ruling that said two counties could seek financial penalties over excess diesel emissions that could total billions of dollars. The
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Oliver Schmidt, a former Volkswagen Group executive arrested in 2017 in relation to the dieselgate scandal, has been released from prison having served roughly half of his sentence. A ruling issued by a court in the German city of Lueneburg
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A million motorists could each win thousands of pounds in compensation from Vauxhall after it was accused of cheating emissions tests. The car maker is alleged to have sold about 600,000 diesel cars fitted with so-called defeat devices, designed to
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Former Audi Chief Executive Officer Rupert Stadler, on trial over charges related to Volkswagen AG’s diesel scandal, blamed engineers for his failure to uncover widespread cheating on emissions tests. Stadler, testifying for the first time, told a Munich court that
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