Beeson v. Lion Connecticut Holdings, Inc. CA1/1
An employer hired a company to give financial seminars to employees. Unbeknownst to the employer, the seminars were actually sales pitches designed to gain clients. Several employees hired the seminar instructors, then later lost money in the 2008 financial crisis as the result of risky investments. The employees sued their employer, who settled, and both the employees and the employer sued the seminar provider. Following a trial that spanned more than a year, the trial court found in favor of both the employees and the employer against the seminar provider.
In these consolidated appeals, the successor company to the seminar provider attacks the judgments regarding both liability and the measure of damages awarded. The employer, meanwhile, appeals from an order awarding it some, but not all, of the attorney fees it incurred in the litigation. We affirm the judgments in all respects.
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