Every year brokers are sued on frivolous or blatantly false claims. At FINRA there is a process called an expungement hearing to have false claims erased or expunged from your record. Recently, in Hawaii a broker went through such a hearing and the Arbitrator ruled that the customer’s claim was indeed false so the broker …
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A recent FINRA Award serves as a warning to brokerages and brokers that they must timely process customer paperwork. The broker for Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. failed to timely change the customer’s beneficiary on an annuity. The customer hired a securities arbitration attorney and filed a claim for damages of $100,000. After a four-day arbitration …
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In a case against Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. the customer won a securities arbitration in Hawaii only 10 months after filing his claim. After a three day arbitration conducted in Honolulu the Panel awarded $45,000 to the customer who alleged investment misrepresentation and violations of Hawaii investment law. See Case Number 09-03470. Charles Schwab …
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