PGMBM Initiates Legal Action Against Nissan and Renault
June 27th, 2020 PGMBM has announced today that it is taking legal action against vehicle manufacturers Renault and Nissan, following allegations that illegal emissions defeat devices have been fitted in a number of cars and vans. Defeat devices are designed to sense when a car is under specific testing conditions, and accordingly turn on emissions […]
PGMBM instructs Serle Court in Easyjet Data Breach Litigation
June 26th, 2020 PGMBM has instructed Sophie Holcombe and David Blayney QC of Serle Court in ongoing litigation against the aviation giant easyJet. In May, the airline announced that it had been subjected to a data theft attack, under which the confidential information of over nine million customers had been breached. In over 2,000 cases, […]
Mercedes Diesel Emissions scandal: PGMBM will be acting on behalf of thousands of claimants who were affected
June 1st, 2020 PGMBM has filed a claim against Daimler AG, parent company of Mercedes-Benz, in the Liverpool High Court. The case relates to a Mercedes diesel emissions scandal, which involves the use of defeat devices (also called ‘cheat devices’) on an estimated half million Mercedes diesel vehicles first registered between 2007 and 2018 in […]
PGMBM Issues Class Action Claim On Behalf Of EasyJet Customers Over Major Data Breach
May 22nd, 2020 EasyJet Data Breach: PGMBM Issues Class Action Claim On Behalf Of Customers The EasyJet data breach was announced by the airline group on 19th May 2020. EasyJet publicly admitted that the sensitive personal data of nine million customers from around the world had been exposed in a “sophisticated” data breach. The cyber-attack […]
SPG Law is now PGMBM: Learn about the rebrand
May 13, 2020 Our lawyers are dedicated to helping ordinary people fight for justice against the largest multinational corporations in the world. We are passionate about holding these corporate giants to account for the devastating and often irreparable damage they have inflicted on people and the environment. We are currently taking on companies such as […]
High Court in London granted a Group Litigation Order following September 2018 British Airways data breach
LONDON, United Kingdom, October 2019 SPG Law, acting on behalf of thousands of BA customers in a group action lawsuit against embattled airline following its catastrophic 2018 data breach has been granted a group litigation order by the High Court in London. British Airways is facing legal claims from thousands of customers whose […]
Primodos: Firms and govt face legal action over claims pregnancy drug ‘damaged babies’
Primodos was a hormone-based pregnancy test, manufactured by Schering, now Bayer PLC, first made available for sale in the UK in 1956 and was withdrawn from sale in 1978. The drug consisted of two pills, to be taken in two consecutive days, and detected pregnancy by inducing a period in a woman who was […]
SPG Law instructs Exchange Chambers on “Dieselgate” class action
July 1, 2019 A number of barristers from Exchange Chambers have been instructed by SPG Law to advise on the Volkswagen “Dieselgate” class action. SPG Law are acting for over 16,000 car owners who bought a diesel VW, Audi, Skoda or Seat car between 2008 and 2015. On the 18 September 2015 it was first […]
BHP Billiton ‘woefully negligent’ over Brazil dam collapse
The worst environmental disaster in Brazil’s history has triggered one of the biggest legal claims ever filed in a British court. The Anglo-Australian mining company BHP Billiton is being sued for about £5bn by Brazilian victims of the Samarco dam collapse in Mariana four years ago. The class action case was filed in the Liverpool High […]
Women sounded alarm on Essure birth control device
Essure, manufactured by Bayer HealthCare, is the only non-surgical permanent form of birth control for women in the UK. Made of a metal coil and plastic PET fibers, the device is known to slice through the uterus and fallopian tubes, migrate into the pelvis or abdomen, and cause allergic and autoimmune reaction to the materials, maiming […]