{"id":104676,"date":"2016-03-14T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=104676"},"modified":"2016-03-14T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T21:24:10","slug":"vw-slapped-with-lawsuits-on-two-continents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2016\/03\/vw-slapped-with-lawsuits-on-two-continents\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Slapped with Lawsuits on Two Continents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Volkswagen is facing two new lawsuits: one in the U.S. and another in Germany. The latter asks for $3.6 billion in damages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Volkswagen is being sued on two continents over issues related to its ongoing diesel scandal.<\/p>\n

Nearly 300 institutional investors filed a $3.6 billion in a German court, alleging the automaker breached its \u201ccapital markets duty,\u201d according to Reuters, between June 2008 and September 2015.<\/p>\n

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A former VW employee in Michigan filed suit alleging the German automaker fired him because he refused to delete documents, which violated a hold order from the Justice Department, and reported the deletion to a supervisor.<\/p>\n

Daniel Donovan is suing under the state\u2019s whistleblower protections, claiming the company wrongfully fired him Dec. 6, 2015. He alleges the automaker continued deleting documents for three days after it was ordered to stop.<\/p>\n

Employed as a \u201ctechnology employee\u201d at the automaker\u2019s general counsel\u2019s office, he was responsible for \u201celectronic information management in injury and product liability cases,\u201d according to the Detroit News.<\/p>\n

(NADA slams VW for Horn\u2019s \u201cresignation.\u201d For more, <\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the suit, he claims he was terminated because he refused \u201cto participate in a course of action that would spoilate evidence and obstruct justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

VW denies his claims, adding his firing was completely unrelated to the diesel emissions issue and that his suit is \u201cwithout merit.\u201d Dononvan filed his suit in Oakland County Circuit Court in Pontiac, Michigan, and in it claims his dismissal violates the state\u2019s Whistleblower Act.<\/p>\n

The suit is Germany is growing quickly as the law firm that filed it, TISAB, filed a motion for models claims, which is essentially asking for it to become a like a class-action suit.<\/p>\n

(VW CEO alerted to diesel problem in early 2014, reports say. <\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong> for more.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Germany doesn\u2019t have a class-action apparatus in its legal system, but it does allow court rulings won by individuals to be used as a template or guideline to set damages incurred by others that are \u201cequally affected,\u201d Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

“Due to the fact that — according to our information and experience — Volkswagen AG persistently denies any settlement negotiations and also refuses to waive the statute of limitation defense until now, it was necessary to file this first multi-billion euro lawsuit,” lawyer Andreas Tilp said in a statement.<\/p>\n

(Horn latest casualty in VW diesel scandal. For more, <\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Volkswagen officials declined to comment on the suit, saying they had not seen it. In addition to the lawsuits, VW is facing more than $20 million in fines from the Justice Department related to its investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volkswagen is being sued on two continents, including one for $3.6 billion, over issues related to its ongoing diesel scandal. Find out more at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":30807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104676"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=104676"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=104676"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=104676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}