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Arbitration Results

Sullwold & Hughes regularly tries cases before arbitration panels appointed by the National Association of Securities Dealers, the New York Stock Exchange, the Pacific Exchange, and the American Arbitration Association. Below is a table of the results, with a link to the actual award where it is available, in cases we have tried since February 1999. In all of these matters, the firm represented the respondent(s).

CLAIMANT

CLAIM

DAMAGES
SOUGHT

AMOUNT
AWARDED

LINK TO AWARD

Beavers

Customer alleged firm mishandled sale of restricted stock

$39,919

$4,000

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/98-02054.pdf

Winterhalter

Broker alleged he had been wrongfully terminated & defamed on U-5

$2,220,000

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/98-00955.pdf

Kramer

Customer alleged he cancelled online order to short LCOS but a day later firm posted execution of order to his account

$21,655

$5,938

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/98-04957.pdf

Gotses

Broker alleged firm shortchanged him on commission payout over seven-year period

$600,000

$2,800

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/98-00469.pdf

Moran

Customer alleged firm failed to notify him until next day that online order to buy BA had been executed

$238,445

$23,125

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-00166.pdf

Hughes

Customer alleged he was unable to get through to firm to place order to cover short position in EBAY

$128,115

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-02308.pdf

Kotha

Customer alleged he cancelled online orders to buy CMGI but two days later firm posted execution of orders to his account

$26,685

$16,396

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-01579.pdf

Guastucci

Customer alleged firm should not have accepted online market order to buy BRCM on first day stock was publicly traded

$10,336

$10,000

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-02824.pdf

Waterall

Customer alleged she cancelled all online orders to sell short AMTD but one was executed anyway

$260,000

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-01943.pdf

Liang

Customer alleged firm should have rejected order to buy AMTX because of insufficient equity

$711,000

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-01715.pdf

Leung

Customer alleged firm liquidated his account without giving him opportunity to meet margin call

$645,000

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-01080.pdf

Janiak

Customer alleged broker recommended unregistered speculative stock

$777,573

$50,000

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-00553.pdf

Edman

Ex-manager alleged firm fired him to avoid paying buy-out bonus

$64,000

-0-

Not available (PX)

Jones

Customer alleged he cancelled online order to buy BIOM but a day later firm posted execution of order to his account

$47,000

$13,500

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-03597.pdf

Shevel

Customer who did cashless options exercise alleged firm made ¿secret profit¿ on transaction

$48,400

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-03458.pdf

Seif

Customer alleged firm failed to execute stop order to buy to cover YHOO short

$37,037

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-02085.pdf

Waite

Customer alleged firm should have rejected order to buy ENMD for insufficient equity

$24,652

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-05695.pdf

Gurewitz

Customer alleged municipal bonds represented as non-callable were subsequently called

$30,600

$6,653

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/99-03298.pdf

Kelly

Customer alleged bank & broker-dealer unreasonably delayed in selling mutual funds held as collateral for loan

$35,000

$19,760

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/00-01133.pdf

Nelson

Customer alleged bank failed to manage or mismanaged three investment accounts

$569,568

$3,267.89

Not available (AAA)

Boscia

Former registered representative alleged firm wrongfully withheld amount paid to settle customer complaint

$22,291

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/00-00615.pdf

Szabo

Customer alleged firm should have rejected order to sell to close expired index options position

$62,838.90

$62,838.90

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/00-01099.pdf

Pepe

Manager alleged he was hired to build fixed-income department and firm failed to support him

$350,000

$5,000

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/00-01668.pdf

Chung

Customer alleged broker recommended unsuitable investments

$1 million

$51,903

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/01-01771.pdf

Heithaus

Broker alleged he had been defamed by former manager

$50,000

-0-

(Motion to dismiss granted)

Bagdasarian

Customer alleged broker switched him out of mutual funds to earn additional commission

$8,500

$4,376.23

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/01-01610.pdf

Crume

Customers alleged they were unable to reach online broker to place sell orders

$113,666.06

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/00-05045.pdf

Breslow

Customer alleged portfolio managers failed to follow instructions to reduce equity allocation in managed account

$500,000

$157,000

Not available (AAA)

Lehrman

Customer alleged broker invested IRA funds in mutual fund without authorization

$7,500

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/01-03628.pdf

Wissner

Customer alleged broker promised him he would be able to sell bonds for no less than amount shown on last statement

$23,519.05

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/01-06040.pdf

Hat Lau

Customer alleged broker recommended purchases of unsuitable penny stocks

$110,000

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/00-05058.pdf`

Soike

Customer alleged broker ignored instructions to buy tax-free bonds & instead invested inheritance in unsuitable mutual funds

$66,000

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/01-05497.pdf

Drebi

Customer alleged broker invested ¿tax money¿ in aggressive-growth mutual funds

$115,854.69

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/02-00200.pdf

Coulon

Customer alleged broker invested funds in unsuitable aggressive-growth portfolio without his authorization

$578,326

$120,000

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/01-05818.pdf

Wilbanks

Customer alleged broker using boiler-room tactics made unauthorized and unsuitable trades

$196,000

$163,000

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/01-05491.pdf

Franzen

Customer alleged broker recommended unsuitable stocks in incubator companies

$88,799.59

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/02-04473.pdf

Ramayya

Customer alleged brokerage firm did not honor promise by relationship manager to discount commissions

$36,163.32

$22,710.28

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/02-00204.pdf

Lissberger

Customer alleged broker recommended unsuitable variable annuity and misrepresented and failed to disclose facts about product

$1,046,500

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/02-02209.pdf

Lockwood

Customer alleged broker induced her to take early retirement by promising he could generate sufficient income from retirement assets and then put her in unsuitable tech portfolio

$209,000

$50,931.94

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/03-07498.pdf

Scher

Customer alleged bank/broker-dealer promised to provide ¿top quality¿ advice about how to invest proceeds from sale of business and then pursued unsuitable investment strategy

$6,681,183

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/03-04783.pdf

Machado

Customer alleged bank/broker failed to manage or mismanaged investment and trust accounts

$484,250.00

-0-

Not available (AAA)

Alston

Customer alleged online broker wrongfully failed to remove freeze on accounts

$134,542.02

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/01-00644.pdf

Patel

Customer alleged broker recommended unsuitable variable annuity

$84,099.60

-0-

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/03-05360.pdf

Williams

Broker alleged he had been fraudulently induced to leave former firm to join bank/broker-dealer

$150,000

$58,250 (net of award on counterclaim)

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/04-07830.pdf

Chen

Customer alleged broker churned account and recommended unsuitable stocks

$75,000

-0-

(Motion to dismiss granted)

http://www.arbitrationrecords.com/pdf/97-01738.pdf

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