- Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | May 20, 2011 3:43 PM | Cleveland, OH
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Miscellaneous
Arbitration agreements. We've all seen them, and they're showing up with increasing frequency in all manner of consumer agreements. If you've purchased cell phone service or opened a credit card...
- Brett Goodson | June 28, 2009 10:17 PM | Cincinnati, OH
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Miscellaneous
It was impossible to turn on the radio, a television or go online this weekend and not see the news. Michael Jackson, the king of pop himself, died at the age of 50. The headlines were everywhere,...
- Nick DiCello | May 11, 2008 8:18 PM | Cleveland, OH
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Miscellaneous
Ohio has been rocked by the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Scores of families and people have lost their homes to foreclosure, and entire communities have been blighted as a result of increasing...
- Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | June 27, 2007 9:51 AM | Cleveland, OH
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Miscellaneous
This week the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion which affirms the heightened standards that shareholders must meet in order to prove securities fraud against a publicly held corporation or its officers in the sale of its securities. Investors that want to sue companies like Enron, Worldcom, Tyco and others who have left investors high and dry after making false and misleading...
- Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | March 17, 2007 5:04 PM | Cleveland, OH
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Miscellaneous
The Insider trading trial against Quest's Communication's CEO is moving forward. The CEO of a corporation is privy to information that the general investing public and even investment brokers are not provided. For any insider, including the CEO, CFO or other officer or director, it is considered a criminal act to take advantage of non public information. To allow such conduct would permit...
- Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | March 12, 2007 5:32 PM | Cleveland, OH
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Medical Malpractice
There is a clock ticking from the date you are injured....and it only hurts the victim. In Ohio, and every state, there is a "statute of limitations" which governs the amount of time which a victim has to file a complaint against the individual/s or company which caused him or her harm. This time period typically begins when the individual is injured, for example, when the car accident...
- Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | March 08, 2007 9:41 AM | Cleveland, OH
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Miscellaneous
The State of Ohio settled a stock fraud case for $144 million, due in part to a new, courageous State Attorney General, who hung tough during negotiations.Individual investors who feel they have suffered losses in their investments due to excessive fees or stock broker malpractice or fraud should always investigate the concern, and might be wise to hire an attorney.
- Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | March 08, 2007 8:24 AM | Cleveland, OH
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Miscellaneous
The Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann announced a settlement reached between Time Warner and a number of Ohio pension funds in the amount of $175 Million for claims arising from the losses suffered by these Ohio funds after the AOL Time Warner merger in 2001. The lawsuit alleged securities fraud and claimed that AOL inflated its stock price before the deal by misrepresenting sales, revenue and...
- Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | February 25, 2007 10:06 AM | Cleveland, OH
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Miscellaneous
The majority of Americans who invest in the markets do so by means of their retirement and pension plans; that is, 401K and defined benefit plans put into place by generous employers for the benefit of their employees. When employees retire and move on they often are faced with decisions about what to do with their money. This is a time when an investor must be on guard for stock broker fraud...