A Dumont-like Horror

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By John T. Brooks, partner, Foley & Lardner, Chicago, and Rorie M. Sherman, editor in chief, Trusts

By: By John T. Brooks, partner, Foley & Lardner, Chicago, and Rorie M. Sherman, editor in chief, Trusts

Stock concentration cases against fiduciaries just keep getting scarier.

The latest fright comes from Hamilton County, Ohio. If the New York case of Dumontsent chills down advisors' spines, Ohio's Fifth Third Bank v. Firstar Bank, No. C-050518 (Sept. 1, 2006), should give them nightmares.

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