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- BUSINESS, Page 47Business NotesLITIGATIONBetty Shapiro: Giant Killer
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- Betty Shapiro, 74, is an outgoing widow with four
- grandchildren, three daughters and a former stockbroker named
- Doris Edelman whom she considered her "fourth daughter." But a
- three-member panel from the American Arbitration Association has
- concluded that Betty Shapiro's fourth daughter took Mom to the
- cleaners. Edelman bought and sold millions of dollars of mutual
- funds on Shapiro's account, generating some $200,000 in sales
- charges and commissions. The panel's judgment: Edelman's
- employer, Prudential-Bache Securities, must pay $1 million in
- punitive fees and $546,769 in compensation to Shapiro.
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- The company (now called Prudential Securities) vows to
- appeal, terming the decision "erroneous." Shapiro's complaint
- is but one of a host facing Prudential, as irked investors seem
- more ready then ever to confront the securities industry. From
- 1988 to 1990, the American Arbitration Association intervened
- in 1,316 such cases.
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