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On March 11 th , 2016, a jury awarded $427,800 to plaintiff Florida Outdoor Properties, Inc., a real estate company represented by the Business Trial Group. The verdict resolved a breach of contract dispute between Florida Outdoor Properties and the defendants, two large citrus corporations. Resolving a broken contract The citrus corporations owned a property [...]

Although the investment fraudsters who make headlines tend to be individuals, corporations can also be guilty of major fraud schemes. The source of corporate investment fraud is often a deliberate lack of transparency that leads investors to suffer losses or unknowingly act against their own best interests. On March 15th, 2016, AIG was fined $9.5 [...]

Though most Americans hope to generate sufficient income from their careers, investments play a major role in how we plan for the future. Whether it’s through a company-sponsored 401K or an independent investment portfolio, millions of Americans put their trust in financial experts in order to make the safest and most advantageous decisions with their [...]

Whenever a Ponzi scheme makes headlines, it’s not uncommon for those unaffected by the scandal to wonder: How could the investors not have known? How could the broker have gotten away with such a massive fraud scheme for so long? Bernie Madoff may have been the most famous financial fraudster since Ponzi himself, but there [...]