Germany’s highest civil and criminal court has ruled that Volkswagen must pay drivers who owned vehicles that were equipped with emissions defeat devices between 5% and 15% of the purchase price of their vehicle. The decision has the potential to cost Volkswagen and other automakers who installed emissions devices on their vehicles – such as…
A recent study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has found that more than 200 vehicle models involving nearly all major auto manufacturers in Europe had excess levels of diesel emissions. The ICCT study found that emissions levels in these vehicles were so high as to indicate that an illegal emissions “defeat device”…
A California U.S. District Court judge has approved an $80 million settlement with Volkswagen and Porsche on behalf of nearly 500,000 consumers who purchased or leased Porsche gasoline-powered vehicles between 2005 and 2020. The plaintiffs in the litigation were represented by attorneys from Heygood Orr & Pearson and other firms.
Since the very beginning of the revelation of the Volkswagen “Dieselgate” scandal, the lawyers at HOP have been working diligently to uncover the details of the scandal, to determine the identity of exactly which entities and individuals were involved in fraud, and to bring justice to the consumers who were defrauded.
Volkswagen says that it will no longer test the effects of its diesel exhaust on animal subjects, the company has announced. VW had been embroiled in controversy following reports that the company had tested the effects of its “TDI Clean Diesel” engines on monkeys in a New Mexico laboratory.
Volkswagen has reached a $33 million deal with Maryland officials to settle emissions cheating allegations made by the state against the German automaker. Maryland authorities has alleged that Volkswagen violated state law by installing an emissions cheat device on diesel-powered VW, Audi, and Porsche models that were sold there.
Volkswagen is facing a massive class action lawsuit in Great Britain involving at least 60,000 vehicle owners who allege that their cars were affected by emissions cheating. The British class action is the latest in a series of legal actions against Volkswagen since the company admitted to diesel emissions cheating on VW, Audi, and Porsche…
German automaker Volkswagen has come under fire over allegations that it sponsored tests that exposed humans and monkeys to diesel exhaust fumes. Exposure to diesel car exhaust has been linked to a number of serious conditions, including asthma, lung disease, and heart attacks.
Since the very beginning of the revelation of the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal, the lawyers at Heygood, Orr & Pearson have been working diligently to uncover the details of the scandal, to determine the identity of exactly which entities and individuals were involved in fraud, and to bring justice to the consumers who were defrauded.
A new study by researchers at MIT estimates that excess emissions from Volkswagen models sold in Germany that were involved in the Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal will cause 1,200 premature deaths in Europe. According to findings published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, about 40% of these deaths will occur in Germany; the remaining deaths…
Police in Germany raided the offices of automaker Audi last week in connection with an investigation into the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal. Volkswagen is facing criminal investigations in connection with the emissions cheating scandal from authorities in the city of Braunschweig, Germany, as well as a separate investigation of Audi by authorities in Munich.
New reports from media outlets in Germany suggest that Audi was deeply involved in the Volkswagen Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal. In September 2015, Volkswagen admitted that it had installed a software “defeat device” on millions of VW and Audi “clean diesel” models in an effort to conceal the high emissions levels of these vehicles from…