{"id":11669,"date":"2025-05-12T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/?p=11669"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T20:00:29","slug":"silver-law-group-client-prevails-in-significant-finra-arbitration-claiming-failure-to-warn-about-bad-financial-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/silver-law-group-client-prevails-in-significant-finra-arbitration-claiming-failure-to-warn-about-bad-financial-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Law Group Client Prevails In Significant FINRA Arbitration Claiming Failure To Warn About Bad Financial Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11670 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-Graphics16.png\" alt=\"When a broker-dealer terminates a broker, it doesn't mean the problems are gone. Some firms continue to deal with those problems for some time. In the case of United Planners\u2019 Financial Services of America, they are still handling the fallout from the firm's former broker, Philip Anthony Riposo (CRD# 400056), who was fired in March of 2022.\n\nUnited Planners and Riposo\u2019s clients, Susan Cushing and Curtis Miller brought a FINRA arbitration against \u00a0United Planners\u2019 in 2023, and were recently awarded $346,000 in damages, plus interest, in a recent FINRA arbitration.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-Graphics16.png 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-Graphics16-180x120.png 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When a broker-dealer terminates a broker, it doesn&#8217;t mean the problems are gone. Some firms continue to deal with those problems for some time. In the case of United Planners\u2019 Financial Services of America, they are still handling the fallout from the firm&#8217;s former broker, Philip Anthony Riposo (CRD# <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/individual\/summary\/400056\" target=\"_blank\">400056<\/a>), who was fired in March of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>United Planners and Riposo\u2019s clients, Susan Cushing and Curtis Miller brought a FINRA arbitration against \u00a0United Planners\u2019 in 2023, and were recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finra.org\/sites\/default\/files\/aao_documents\/23-02176.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">awarded $346,000 in damages<\/a>, plus interest, in a recent FINRA arbitration. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/silver-law-group-client-prevails-in-significant-finra-arbitration-claiming-failure-to-warn-about-bad-financial-advisor\/#more-11669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a broker-dealer terminates a broker, it doesn&#8217;t mean the problems are gone. Some firms continue to deal with those problems for some time. In the case of United Planners\u2019 Financial Services of America, they are still handling the fallout from the firm&#8217;s former broker, Philip Anthony Riposo (CRD# 400056), who was fired in March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[588,580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finra-arbitration","category-stockbroker-misconduct"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Silver Law Group Client Prevails In FINRA Arbitration Over Failure To Warn About Bad Financial Advisor Philip Anthony Riposo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"United Planners\u2019 Financial Services of America are still handling the fallout from their former broker, Philip 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