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Registered Rep.
January 1, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Spitzer Defends UBS Brokers--No, Seriously Eliot Spitzer announced in mid-December that he thinks the $89 million overtime settlement that UBS agreed to in February 2006 is unfairly distributed, and he's asking a Northern California District Court to reject the proposed settlement amount.   |
Registered Rep.
September 13, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Finally Pays Off Smith Barney brokers may be the first to cash in on overtime lawsuits that have been all the rage over the last two years. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Ready to Punch a Time Clock Merrill Lynch paid $37 million to settle claims that it owes thousands of former brokers overtime pay. Now, class-action attorneys smell blood. |
Registered Rep.
February 22, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Brokers Headed for Sweep in Overtime Pay Cases? Stockbrokers have won their second big overtime pay case against Wall Street firms and this may only be the beginning of a rout that could cost brokerage houses many millions of dollars more. |
Registered Rep.
March 3, 2006
Halah Tourylai |
Third Wirehouse Coughs Up Millions In Overtime Cases Yesterday, Morgan Stanley became the third wirehouse, after Merrill Lynch and UBS, to settle class action suits with California brokers over overtime pay in the past seven months -- the second in three weeks. |
Registered Rep.
November 29, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Lynch to Pay National Overtime Settlement The financial firm has decided to consolidate the numerous overtime lawsuits that have been filed against the firm and settle nationally with its brokers. |
Registered Rep.
July 14, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Morgan Stanley Offers $50 million In Overtime Settlement The settlement covers all financial advisors, trainees, producing branch managers, assistant branch managers and sales managers who live outside of California and were employed with the New York-based firm between Sept. 1, 2002, and April 21, 2008. |
Registered Rep.
February 9, 2006
John Churchill |
Pro Or Hourly Wage Earner? UBS Pays $89 Million to Settle Overtime Suits The settlement resolves claims that UBS incorrectly classified financial advisors and financial advisor trainees as exempt from overtime pay under federal and U.S. state laws. |
Registered Rep.
August 8, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
A.G. Edwards' Challenge to OT Pay Fails Are registered reps hourly employees and, therefore, entitled to overtime? The overtime-pay case keeps getting stronger. A California court announced that it would not dismiss an overtime-pay case brought against A.G. Edwards. |
Registered Rep.
April 28, 2003
Will Leitch |
Historic Settlement Doesn't Target Brokers -- But You're Hardly Home Free Now that the Wall Street global settlement is official, brokers might be inclined to heave a sigh of relief. Don't. While the settlement will have a lasting impact on the brokerage industry, brokers have been unscathed by the Spitzer investigations -- so far. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Everybody Wants Their Overtime UBS said it has agreed to pay $89 million to settle class-action wage and hours claims of reps filed this past summer in several federal courts. |
Registered Rep.
August 24, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Claims Make Their Way To Schwab The lawyers involved in a number of overtime cases against major wirehouse firms, including UBS and Merrill Lynch, filed a new one against Charles Schwab in July. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Score One for Diversity UBS has hired a prominent black Smith Barney broker. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Travel Abroad? Get Back Some Money It's time for credit card companies to pay you back. The result of a recent suit was a settlement that could get you some money back if you've paid currency-conversion fees while traveling in a foreign country between 1996 and 2006. |
Investment Advisor
July 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
B/d Briefing: Two Faces of Wall Street Few financial professionals expect to work a 40-hour week on Wall Street. So it was surprising to see the extent of rep participation in class-action lawsuits over broker overtime, and the astounding settlements that have been awarded. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Where's My Money? After California brokers won $37 million in an overtime lawsuit against Merrill Lynch in August, a slew of copycat lawsuits have been filed against other brokerage firms, many of them in New York. |
BusinessWeek
October 1, 2007
Michael Orey |
Wage Wars Workers - from truck drivers to stockbrokers - are winning huge overtime lawsuits. |
Registered Rep.
July 13, 2009 |
Swiss and U.S. Tension Rising Over UBS Tax Evasion Case The problem continues to be that Swiss banking laws -- which say tax fraud is illegal, but not tax evasion -- protect the names of the 52,000 American clients and giving them up would violate Swiss criminal law. |
Registered Rep.
September 14, 2005
Kristen French |
Overtime Pay, Chargebacks Under Fire; Morgan Stanley Latest Firm in Lawyers' Sights A $450 million class-action lawsuit filed in New York against Morgan Stanley on Friday could have major implications for brokerages' pay practices in the state. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Wall Street Wage Fight An activist labor lawyer's allegations, if correct, raise serious issues on compensation practices at financial institutions. By applying a landmark, Depression-era labor law to the brokerage business, he has settled class-action suits against two wirehouse firms in California already. |
Registered Rep.
September 8, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Discrimination Suit Moves Forward After Failed Settlement Talks The racial-discrimination suit against Merrill Lynch is under way again after settlement talks between African-American brokers and the firm came to a halt in early June. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2006
Roy Mark |
FTC Wants to Nix Netflix 'Opt-Out' Terms The Federal Trade Commission is opposing a proposed class action settlement agreement between Netflix and consumers, claiming the deal appears to unfairly favor the online movie DVD rental outfit. |
Registered Rep.
April 27, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Judge Says Citi Brokers Must Repay Bonuses; Appeal Comes Next Former Citigroup brokers, who wanted courts to dismiss debts the firm said they owed on loans awarded when they were hired, were turned down by a district court judge. But they are planning to appeal that decision. |
PC World
November 1, 2001
Sumner Lemon |
Microsoft, Government May Make a Deal Proposed antitrust settlement would give PC makers more control over Windows desktops; deal could be finalized on Friday... |
InternetNews
November 28, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
NetGear to Settle Speed Suit NetGear will settle a class-action lawsuit that challenges its data-speed claims, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
PC World
August 5, 2002
Joris Evers |
Microsoft Set to Act on Antitrust Settlement Software giant will carry out part of the proposed deal with the DOJ, even though judge has yet to approve it. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Out with a Bang Eliot Spitzer may have less than a month left as New York State's attorney general, but the governor elect says there two new Wall Street cases he's taking on before year's end. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2007 |
Enough Is Not Enough A group of Morgan Stanley reps involved in a race-discrimination suit say a proposed $16-million settlement is just not enough. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Bonus Repayment Suit Turns Into Battle Over Forced Arbitration A court case over the repayment of upfront loans to brokers is turning into a legal battle over forced FINRA arbitration. |
InternetNews
June 15, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
PayPal to Pay Up on Class Action Suit The person-to-person payment enabler will pay up for alleged mess-ups. |
Information Today
March 31, 2011
George H. Pike |
Google Book Settlement Rejected: What's Next? Last week's rejection of the proposed settlement of the lawsuit between Google and a group of authors and publishers has thrown the future of the Google Book database into question. |
PC Magazine
August 27, 2003
Alexandra Robbins |
Ordered to Pay Up Had Robin Hood's booty of choice been copies of Microsoft Office, he might have been involved in the largest recovery ever achieved under California's antitrust laws -- one that partially benefits lower-income students. |
InternetNews
March 23, 2006
David Miller |
N.Y. AG Takes on Privacy Fight With Gratis New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has filed suit against Web site operator Gratis Internet over personal information. |
Registered Rep.
September 9, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
Imagine 50 Eliot Spitzers When are mutual fund companies charging too much in advisory fees? What constitutes proper disclosure of revenue sharing? And which governmental authority has jurisdiction over these issues? |
Information Today
September 24, 2009 |
Google Book Search Settlement Hearing to Be Postponed On Sept. 22, the parties involved in the Google Book Search settlement have asked the federal court to postpone the scheduled Oct. 7 hearing to give them time to work with the U.S. Department of Justice so that the parties can amend the Settlement Agreement. |
Registered Rep.
January 22, 2003
Will Leitch |
Busting a CAP Opponents of Salomon Smith Barney's Capital Accumulation Plan to get a day in court |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Judge Skeptical of Investors Suing Merrill Attorneys at Merrill Lynch asked a federal judge in New York to throw out a suit representing thousands who lost money in the Internet bubble, and the firm's pleas appear to be finding a receptive ear. |
Information Today
October 10, 2005
Carole Ebbinghouse |
We've Not Seen the Last of The Copyright Class Action So far, none of the organizations involved in The Copyright Class Action and In Re Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation or the copyright class action Web site have a press release or any mention of the final approval of the settlement by the court on Sept. 30. |
InternetNews
September 25, 2009 |
Judge's Order Keeps Google Books in Limbo New York judge postpones fairness hearing for controversial settlement agreement in response to DoJ objections. |
Registered Rep.
February 24, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Seven Years Later, Merrill Broker Discrimination Class Action Gets go Ahead The lawsuit will go to court in April, and then the judge will set a date for trial. |
Registered Rep.
June 3, 2003
Will Leitch |
Brokerage Chiefs in Spitzer's Sights When New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the $1.4 billion settlement of the securities conflict of interest case in April, his office warned that it was "the beginning, not the end." Wirehouses are finding out, in a big way, that he wasn't kidding. |
BusinessWeek
September 2, 2010 |
Hard Choices: Joe Plumeri The chairman and CEO of insurance brokerage giant Willis Group on shunning contingent commissions and forgoing millions |
The Motley Fool
February 21, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Study Before Selling Your Life Insurance If you shun full-service brokers and their high commissions and fees, don't fall for a life settlement that's more in your advisor's interest than your own. |
InternetNews
June 3, 2005
Tim Gray |
Apple Settles iPod Battery Claim Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the rechargeable battery in its popular iPod. |
CFO
September 1, 2005
Russ Banham |
Seeing No Evil The contingent-commission scandal has called into question long-standing insurance practices. But corporate risk managers share the blame. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Settlements Stacking Up Citigroup agreed in mid-May to pay a record $98 million to past and present advisors to settle their overtime-pay claims. It's the fourth major financial firm to settle a class-action suit regarding overtime pay within the past 10 months. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Ready to Punch the Clock? Most registered reps compare themselves to professionals, such as doctors and lawyers. However, it seems that according to an interpretation of federal law, financial advisors may be held to the same labor law standards as an hourly employee. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Will Lawsuit Hurt Express Scripts? Although investors seem to be over the initial jitters arising from Express Scripts' problems, the stock is still down more than 12% since New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit accusing the pharmacy benefits manager of fraud. |
InternetNews
July 30, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
PayPal Payout Pending If you opened a PayPal account between October 1999 and January 2004, you may be entitled to a payment from a class action settlement. |
InternetNews
June 30, 2004
Roy Mark |
Microsoft Prevails in Antitrust Appeal The U.S. Court of Appeals denies Massachusetts' challenge to the Department of Justice's landmark antitrust settlement with Microsoft. |
