Unpublished Newswire

Canadians who purchased or leased a new vehicle between 1998 and 2017 may be eligible to receive a share of roughly $50 million in class-action settlement funds. The payments stem from a series of lawsuits alleging price-fixing of key automotive parts, which affected an estimated one million vehicles in Canada. Parts include air conditioning systems, door latches, braking systems and shock absorbers, and impacted some of the world’s largest automakers, triggering class actions and criminal investigations globally. Automakers themselves are not accused of wrongdoing and are not...