FINRA Dispute Resolution Services: “Get Vaccinated or Participate Virtually (Except in Florida)”
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By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

FINRA Dispute Resolution Services (“DRS”) on September 17 announced an updated COVID-19 vaccination policy.

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Remember the FINRA Case Where the Broker Challenged a Zoom Hearing Ordered Over His Objection? It’s Been Awarded
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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. 

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FINRA DRS Postpones In-Person Hearings through Beginning of April
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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;

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FINRA Stats, 6/18: At the Halfway Mark, FINRA-DR’s Incoming Cases Are On Track To Add More Than a Thousand More Cases Than 2017
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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,

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Latest Neutral Corner from FINRA’s Office of Dispute Resolution Hits the Electronic Newsstand. Its Lead Article Discusses the NAMC, But It Also Features Tips on Scheduling Hearings
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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,

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Award Survey: Impact of Claim Amounts on 2013-17 Customer-Member Awards
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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,

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