With more than 35 years of experience representing plaintiffs who have sustained serious personal injuries or financial losses, the trial lawyers of BIREN|KATZMAN have successfully handled hundreds of cases, collecting more than $250 million for our clients. The following case is just one example:
TUSHNER V. FIRST NATIONAL MORTGAGE CO.
Defrauded Businessman Awarded $4.5 Million By Jury
Irving Tushner owned a full service home loan business. After some business reversals, he sold the loan division to a bank and the loan servicing division to First National Mortgage. Mr. Tushner retained a one year option to re-purchase the loan servicing business for $1 million (which would have guaranteed a profit of $500,000 to the buyer). The Plaintiff timely notified First National Mortgage that he was going to exercise his option, but the buyer refused to sell it back to him.
BIREN|KATZMAN represented Mr. TUshner on a fraud and breach of contract lawsuit. At trial, the defendants argued that the plaintiff was legally and financially incapable of resuming the business and that they had a legal and ethical obligation to the company's clients to continue servicing them. BIREN|KATZMAN proved that these defenses were untrue and that the defendants' motivation for keeping the company was to continue reaping the huge profits which they had realized during their first year of operation of the servicing business.
A San Jose jury returned a $4.5 million verdict in favor of Mr. Tushner.
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