March 28, 2024

Employee Stock Arbitration

The Meissner Law Firm Has Represented Numerous Current & Former AOL Employees in Multi-Million Dollar Claims Relating to Their Employment Stock and Their Former Morgan Stanley D.W. Broker

 

The Securities Arbitration Law Firm of Meissner Associates has handled numerous claims on behalf of current and/or former employees of AOL / Time Warner involving Morgan Stanley DW Inc. and their former MSDW broker Eric Skigen formerly of the MSDW Bethesda Maryland branch office.

The claims involved current and past America Online / TimeWarner Virginia based employees whose claims included allegations that Morgan Stanley and their broker Eric Skigen used unsuitable speculative AOL option strategies, maintained unsuitably concentrated AOL stock positions and /or failed to recommend appropriate hedging strategies, to assist several of the AOL workers, resulting in millions of dollars of losses for such employees. The current and former employees filed separate FINRA arbitration claims through the Meissner law firm. The current and former employees were early employees of America Online, including computer engineers who originally received millions of dollars worth of America Online stock options and stock.

On March 14, 2005 as per his CRD record, Eric Skigen was “Permitted to Resign” from Morgan Stanley due to “allegations concerning the issue of whether Mr. Skigen’s notes relating to a client were contemporaneous and accurate and his representation concerning this issue.” Mr. Skigen was then hired by Sun Trust Investment Services Inc. in Washington D.C. where he remains employed today. Mr. Skigen’s CRD along with all other broker CRDs can be accessed via the FINRA web site http://pdpi.FINRAr.com/pdpi/.

Subsequent to Mr. Skigen’s departure the Meissner firm successfully sought to inspect MSDW’s computers related to the broker’s computerized notes within the MSDW ACT computer software system, which were produced in the defense of one of the pending AOL claims. After the Meissner firm sought a unique FINRA arbitration panel Order to conduct a computer forensic inspection of MSDW’s computer system MSDW admitted that the computerized notes were in fact created by Skigen years after the 2001 dates stamped on the actual notes previously presented in discovery which were made to appear to be contemporaneous, altering MSDW’s prior representation regarding such issue. The Meissner firm is unaware of any similar mea culpa admission to a panel obtained by any other law firm regarding broker notes, in pursuing an FINRA arbitration claim.

The Meissner firm has successfully handled numerous complex failure to hedge / overconcentration cases on behalf of employees of public companies against brokerage firms, including the well publicized $820,000 award against Banc of America Securities, awarded on behalf of a former Doubleclick employee.

The Meissner law firm, www.Stockesq.com is a nationally recognized law firm with its primary focus being securities arbitration matters, led by former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer prosecutor Stuart D. Meissner Esq. The Meissner firm continues to investigate many overconcentration and failure to hedge cases on behalf of various employees of public companies.