{"id":5834,"date":"2018-03-06T15:21:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:21:29","slug":"silver-law-group-investigating-christopher-bennett-hilliard-lyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/silver-law-group-investigating-christopher-bennett-hilliard-lyons\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Law Group is Investigating Christopher Bennett of Hilliard Lyons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel awarded a customer of Christopher Bennett of Hillard Lyons damages of $445,000 after the claimant alleged Bennett engaged in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/breach-of-fiduciary-duty.html\" target=\"_blank\">breach of fiduciary duty<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/unauthorized-trading.html\" target=\"_blank\">unauthorized trading<\/a>, suitability, churning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/misrepresentation-omission-of-material-facts.html\" target=\"_blank\">misrepresentation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/misrepresentation-omission-of-material-facts.html\" target=\"_blank\">omission of facts<\/a>, common law negligence, fraud, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/failure-to-supervise.html\" target=\"_blank\">failure to supervise<\/a>, common law negligent supervision and violation of Kentucky statutes, regulations and FINRA rules. The causes of action related to losses to the client\u2019s qualified and non-qualified retirement accounts. The investor alleges Mr. Bennett executed transactions in her accounts without authorization, allocated her assets in an unsuitable manner for someone her age and with her investment objectives without discussing the risk associated with such re-allocation, and engaged in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/excessive-trading-churning.html\" target=\"_blank\">excessive trading<\/a> in her accounts. A brokerage firm has a duty to supervise a stockbroker for compliance with the securities laws and internal firm rules and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Duke Bennett is currently registered with J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons in Louisville, Kentucky, and has been since December 1995. He has six customer disputes against him, three of which are currently pending.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Contact Our Firm if You\u2019ve Invested with Christopher Bennett<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/silver-law-group-investigating-christopher-bennett-hilliard-lyons\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Silver Law Group is Investigating Christopher Bennett of Hilliard Lyons\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel awarded a customer of Christopher Bennett of Hillard Lyons damages of $445,000 after the claimant alleged Bennett engaged in breach of fiduciary duty, unauthorized trading, suitability, churning, misrepresentation, omission of facts, common law negligence, fraud, failure to supervise, common law negligent supervision and violation of Kentucky statutes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,589,607,590,580,581],"tags":[757,758,290],"class_list":["post-5834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breach-of-fiduciary-duty","category-churning-2","category-failure-to-supervise","category-misrepresentation-and-omission-of-material-facts","category-stockbroker-misconduct","category-unauthorized-trading","tag-christopher-bennett","tag-hilliard-lyons","tag-securities-arbitration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Silver Law Group is Investigating Christopher Bennett of Hilliard Lyons &#8212; 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