The Munich Regional Court is preparing to split up the second major truck cartel process.
The buyers of around 100,000 trucks in 26 states have assigned their claim for damages of over 590 million euros to the debt collection company Financialright Claims because of price fixing.
The court ruled Friday that plaintiff Financialright now has until November 18 to list how many trucks were purchased in which states.
Then some of the mostly very complicated disputes could be dealt with separately in one or more separate proceedings.
The bulk of the lawsuit relates to truck purchases in Germany.
The court expects an expert opinion on this at the end of October or beginning of November.
The truck manufacturers deny that the buyers suffered any damage as a result of their replacement.
On the other hand, a professor commissioned by Financialright had calculated an average damage of several thousand euros per truck.
By separating purchases and leases in other states, the district court hopes to make the sheer volume of disputes more manageable and speed up the adjudication.
The Munich Regional Court dismissed the largest lawsuit for 867 million euros in February 2020 because Financialright exceeded its collection permit with the class action lawsuit.
In the meantime, however, the BGH has declared a class action lawsuit by the Financialright subsidiary Myright, which had bundled the claims of diesel car buyers against the Volkswagen group, to be admissible.
Financialright's appeal against the judgment in the first trial lies with the Munich Higher Regional Court.
The EU Commission fined Daimler (today Daimler Trucks), DAF, Iveco, Volvo/Renault and Scania almost four billion euros by 2017 because they had exchanged ideas in a cartel for years.
MAN went unpunished as a key witness.
Scania denies any involvement.
In its decision, the EU Commission left open whether the truck buyers had suffered any damage.