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E*Trade Securities, Inc. Found Liable and Ordered To Pay Investor Ali Khadivi $61,203

PR Newswire

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ — The following is being issued: Ali Lee Khadivi, an on-line investor was awarded $61,203 plus interest and costs by an National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) arbitration panel. The award against E*Trade Securities, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGRP – news) came after more than one year of litigation stemming from […]

Investor-Protection Agency’s Scroogelike Ways Draw Fire in Trade Dispute

TheStreet.com

Austin McCormack admits it probably wasn’t the best idea to invest $10,000 of his retirement savings in stocks simply because they were recommended by a cold-calling broker from Hanover Sterling, a Manhattan brokerage specializing in penny stocks. But when the brokerage collapsed in 1995, he thought that the quasigovernmental, nonprofit agency that insures brokerage accounts, […]

E-Trade to pay customer for order gone awry

Reuters

E-Trade Group Inc. (NasdaqNM:EGRP – news), the No. 2 Internet broker, has been ordered to pay a customer more than $61,000 plus interest and costs as a result of a mishandled order, lawyers involved said Monday. The case, which was decided by a National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) arbitration panel in San Francisco, showed […]

Lawyers Group Alleges NASD’s Arbitrations Biased for Firms

Los Angeles Times

Lawyers representing individual investors in disputes against brokerages charged Thursday that the National Assn. of Securities Dealers has been “rigging” arbitration hearings to favor Wall Street firms–an allegation that the NASD instantly denounced. The group charged that NASD computers have been set so that the panels conducting arbitration hearings are stacked with people friendly to […]

Legal Claims by Online Traders Are On the Rise as Market Turns Stormy

Wall Street Journal

Lots of Internet traders complain about their online broker’s service: balky Web sites, poor trade executions. Now investors are doing something about it. Lawyers and others familiar with brokerage-industry disputes say legal claims by customers are on the rise. This year’s market turbulence may spur even more. Linda Fienberg, president of dispute resolution at the […]