Attorneys William Lewis, Benjamin Webster, and Katherine Thanos won an $840,000 jury verdict in West Palm Beach, Florida on behalf of Equestrian Sotheby’s real estate brokerage (“Sotheby’s”). The jury verdict represents 100% of the commission owed to Sotheby’s for the $21 million property sale in Wellington, Florida. Sotheby’s listed the Defendants’ 38-acre polo property in [...]

The Business Trial Group represented a widow seeking to inherit her husband’s estate. The husband’s brother argued that the “intestate” estate (property without a will) should pass solely to him, since the husband died while he and his wife were undergoing divorce proceedings and had, in fact, entered a partial settlement agreement disposing of some [...]

The Business Trial Group (“BTG”) filed a lawsuit in Essex County, Massachusetts, against Mark Fagan and Joanne Fagan, alleging that Eugenia Subero has not been fully paid for more than seven years of 24-7 in-home care she provided to the defendants’ mother, an elderly dementia and Alzheimer’s patient. The lawsuit asserts damages for unpaid compensation [...]

FINRA recently adopted a new rule to limit stockbrokers from being named a beneficiary, trustee, or executor by a customer. The new FINRA Rule 3241 protects investors by requiring all FINRA-member brokerage firms to affirmatively address any situation where a customer appoints a firm’s stockbroker as beneficiary or to another position of trust such as [...]