OnStar Shakes Certification of Automatic Renewal Class

OnStar LLC won’t face class claims that it made charges to consumers’ bank and credit card accounts without consent after a free initial period.

General Motors Co.'s OnStar provides subscription-based communications, emergency services, hands-free calling, and navigation services.

The complaint alleged that OnStar surreptitiously obtains consumers’ debit and credit card account numbers and then takes up to $34.99 per month through electronic funds transfers from consumers’ bank accounts and through charges to consumers’ credit cards, all without authorization.

But named plaintiff Kathryn Robinson failed to show that common issues predominate as to the proposed nationwide or California classes, the U.S. ...