Legal Question in Disability Law in Florida

Re: person with aids taken advantage of by broker

I do not practice brokerage law, so I do not know if there is any particular law applicable to your question. In general, this does not sound like a disability discrimination case unless you could somehow show that you were treated differently than non-disabled people.

However, if your disease distracts you from being able to tend to other matters such as investing, and the broker was aware of this, then this could help your case. In other words, it may be that you totally put your trust in the broker and perhaps paid less attention to the accounts than someone else would have because of your disease. Thus, arguably, the broker had an even higher duty to tend to your accounts and ensure that proper investments were being made.

My sense, though, is that the case will hinge on whether the broker violated any investing rules/norms. For example, did he withhold info from you, invest in risky ventures without your permission, fail to track the account properly while money was being lost, etc.

Good luck.

Jeff Sheldon

Jeffrey L. Sheldon, Esquire

The Sheldon Law Firm

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