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CFS settles super fees class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
... members of CFS FirstChoice and conduct carried out between July 2013 and June 2020. The class action - brought by Slater and Gordon - alleged that CFS did not act in thousands of customers' best interests by continuing to charge existing members ...

E&P appoints new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2023
... the role of managing director. Prior to E&P, he led corporate restructures for the likes of Babcock & Brown, Slater and Gordon, Hastings Funds Management and Arrium, as well consulted for banks syndicates, bond holders and hedge funds. Anderson is a ...

Westpac settles BT Super class action

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2022
... invested their funds through Westpac Life, allowing Westpac Life to earn fees without providing a valuable service. Slater and Gordon launched legal proceedings against the bank in 2019 as part of its Get Your Super Back campaign. The law firm's ...

ANZ to pay $42m in insurance lawsuit

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... consumer credit insurance (CCI) products. Commonwealth Bank has also reached a settlement for a similar matter. Slater and Gordon filed the class action against ANZ, OnePath Life, OnePath General Insurance, and QBE Insurance in 2020. A spokesperson from ...

Elana Rubin joins Dexus board

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022
... traditional businesses and business disruptors. She is currently a non-executive director of Telstra Corporation and Slater and Gordon as well as several unlisted companies and government entities. She is also a previous chair of AustralianSuper and ...

Backlash after 'unprecedented' ASIC action against Westpac

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... financial advisers and lawyers have come out criticising Westpac over the six cases brought against it by ASIC. Slater and Gordon Lawyers is calling on Westpac to 'walk the talk', after Westpac's chief executive Peter King said the bank remains committed ...

Concern for consumers ahead of YFYS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... Representatives lawyers have expressed concern consumers may not understand the impact of the changes. Law firm Slater and Gordon warned that Australians could end up with less insurance coverage or the wrong insurance policy if the stapling reforms ...

Class action launched against OnePath

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JAN 2021
Slater and Gordon have filed a class action against ANZ and its former subsidiaries OnePath Custodians and OnePath Life as part of its #GetYourSuperBack campaign. Filed in the Federal Court in December 2020, this makes the fifth class action launched ...

IPO Wealth trustee hit with class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
Slater and Gordon issued the embattled IPO Wealth Fund with a class action late last week. The firm will represent unitholders in the IPO Wealth Fund, which is currently being wound up by trustee Vasco Trustees after the Victorian Supreme Court ordered ...

Law firm slams insurer mental health policies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
Slater and Gordon has criticised life insurers for proposing to dictate who can and can't access mental health treatment through their funding programs. Calls from the life insurance industry for regulatory freedom to allow life companies to be ...