Dozens of plaintiffs suing brokerage firms this month have seen a veritable gusher of multimillion-dollar awards, leaving some plaintiff's attorneys anticipating a continued stream of such arbitration rulings
Montana's commissioner of securities and insurance has sued Securities America Inc. over the sale of failed private placements, making it the second state to target the broker-dealer for selling the risky investments.
Five years before a series of Medical Capital Holdings Inc. private placements disintegrated — wiping out $1.1 billion in investor cash — securities regulators were already concerned about the lack of audited financial information for the deals.
In a highly unusual legal maneuver in its battle with Massachusetts securities regulators, Securities America Inc. is requesting that other broker-dealers that sold the private-placement investments of Medical Capital Holdings be issued subpoenas — a move designed demonstrate that Securities America met industry standards when 400 of its affiliated brokers sold close to $700 million of now worthless MedCap notes to clients.
Finra tells Peak Securities to pay $400K to settle a claim over a private placement sale for Medical Capital. The kicker: hundreds more complaints loom as irate investors look to recoup losses from questionable Reg D offerings
Were three awards totaling $25.1M in past two months a coincidence? Some attorneys don't think so
Ameriprise Financial Inc. next year will begin imposing annual fees of up to $80 on the brokerage accounts of many of its wealthy customers — a move likely to irk the firm's advisers and registered representatives.
Finra panel ruled that the B-D was 'negligent in not preventing' the outside business activities of a former broker
Broker-dealers are browbeating clients to settle arbitration cases by inundating them with requests for discovery information, according to a top state securities regulator.
