The New Class Actions Law
Adv. Sharon Shefer, contributed the Israeli chapter to a publication of a Multi-Jurisdictional guide to litigation costs (published in March 2010) under the name "At What Cost?" - a Lovells Multi-Jurisdictional Guide to litigation costs.
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Yael Navon, Adv.
In a precedent decision handed down by the Tel Aviv District Court on 7th October 2008, the Court ordered the largest milk distributor in Israel - TNUVA - to compensate its milk consumers for mixing silicon into its products and concealing this fact from the public. The sum awarded by the Court is the highest compensation ever awarded in a Class Action in Israel.
By Adv. Peggy Sharon, Senior Partner and Adv. Yossi Givoni, Partner
The Tel Aviv District Court accepted the position of Clal Insurance Co. (represented by our firm) that a product liability policy only covers physical damage caused to third party property and not financial damages allegedly sustained thereby. In addition, such damages were specifically excluded from coverage under the Recall Exclusion.
Since the sixties a major effort was undertaken to reform the existing civil legislation which, as mentioned, was mostly Mandatory and even Ottoman. A series of laws was enacted in the field of civil law, including the Contracts Law (General Provisions) - 1973, the Contract Law (remedies) - 1970. These laws were mainly based on the German Codex.
Dring the 1980's the Israeli legislator enacted a list of laws which were consumer oriented namely laws which were meant to protect the consumers. Among these laws are the Consumer Protection Law - 1981, Liability for Defective Products Law -1980, the Insurance Contract Law -1981 and others.
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