By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
The arbitration underlying a suit challenging a FINRA Panel’s authority to hold a virtual hearing over a broker’s objection has been awarded.
FINRA’s Office of Dispute Resolution Services (“DRS”) has again administratively postponed all in-person arbitration and mediation hearings.
The January 5 announcement now includes hearings through April 2;
At the end of 2018’s first quarter, we would not have thought the surprising caseload surge sustainable, but, having reached the end of the second quarter,
FINRA’s Office of Dispute Resolution (“ODR”) has once again posted the latest issue of its newsletter for arbitrators and mediators, The Neutral Corner (“TNC”) and,
To close out this calendar year, we decided to investigate how the amount of compensatory damages claimed affects a customer Claimant’s case.
This survey considers a number of factors that we thought might well differ depending on the claim amount: the number of hearing sessions,
With seven months of 2017 tabulated, FINRA, in its monthly statistical report on the activities of its dispute resolution unit (ODR), has recorded fewer than two thousand new cases filed.