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Thousands of foreign diesel buyers who have assigned their claims against VW to the online service provider Myright can hope for compensation again.
Unlike the courts in Braunschweig before it, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe ruled on Monday in a model case involving a Swiss customer that Myright met the formal requirements to ultimately collect the claims through class action lawsuits.
Special expertise, for example in Swiss law, is not required for this.
This means that the content of the individual claims can now be checked.
Myright is collecting damages for tens of thousands of diesel owners in return for a commission of 35 percent in the event of success.
According to VW, there are several class action lawsuits for a total of around 36,000 clients.
These include two class action lawsuits for more than 2,000 Swiss and around 6,000 Slovenian Myright customers.
The class action lawsuits are not to be confused with the already concluded model declaratory action lawsuit brought against Volkswagen by consumer advice centers.
This procedure had ended with a settlement from which a good 245,000 diesel owners benefited.
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