Sibanye-Stillwater hit with lawsuit over mounting fatalities, losses

By Cecilia Jamasmie

A US law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against South Africa’s Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) on behalf of shareholders over losses suffered after a series of deaths at its mines, which has caused a sharp drop of the stock price.

Bernstein Liebhard LLP said in a statement the suit would deal with “misleading statements” made by the precious metals producer, which has had 21 fatalities on its operations so far in 2018, almost half of the total in South Africa’s mining industry.

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