Claims Examples

Broad Form Company Liability

≡ A depositor’s investment advisor embezzles hundreds of thousands of dollars after a bank officer wrongfully permits a signature card to be removed from the bank. The depositor sues the bank and its officers.
   
≡ An investor advances money to a local company in reliance on a bank’s representations that the company is financially sound, but experiencing a short term cash crunch. When the company defaults, the investor sues the bank.
   
≡ Elderly victims sue a bank for aiding and abetting when an unscrupulous broker in another state perpetrates a Ponzi scheme using the bank’s CDs as the alleged investment.
   
≡ Shareholders of a bank sue another bank for terminating merger discussions after months of negotiations.