FRIDAY, September 01, 2000
Kathryn B. Moser v. Barron Chase Securities

No.96,714

Pasco County


Moser took a dispute with her securities broker and his employer Barron Chase to arbitration. The arbitration panel awarded her about $82,000 in damages and referred her request for attorneys' fees to a court of competent jurisdiction. Later, the circuit court awarded her just over $60,000 in fees plus interest retroactive to the date of the arbitration award. The second district reversed on grounds that entitlement to fees was not clear from the language of the arbitration award and interest could not be retroactive.