FREEMAN v. DEAN WITTER REYNOLDS, INC.

Nos. 2D01-4195, 2D01-4202.

865 So.2d 543 (2003)

Lewis B. FREEMAN, as Receiver for NorthAmerican Financial Services, Inc.; and Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Abell; Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Abelt; Jon K. Anderson; Mr. and Mrs. George S. Bennington; Jane E. Bennington; Carol Shaper Butler; Mr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Caldwell; Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Cappeto; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Coccaro; Roy Conrad; Mr. and Mrs. M.A. Dicello; Mr. and Mrs. John M. Duffy; Jerry Dyer; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fraser; Robert A. Gordon; Drege L. Gregory; Mr. and Mrs. William G. Grieve; Esher Hamel; Patricia J. Hotmer; Edward C. Jung; Deborah Knoeferi; Myra L. Knoeferi; Mr. and Mrs. William Lamont; Eldon D. Ledman; Mae Levaas; Mr. and Mrs. William E. Livingston; Mr. and Mrs. Leroy L. McKinney; Paul Mewborn; Paul A. Michalezka, Sr.; John D. Muzio; David S. Newman; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. O'Keefe; Mr. and Mrs. Carmine J. Pardo; Dorothy E. Peckman; Ernest R. Perry; Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Poukish; Mr. and Mrs. Deward Riggs; John Ritchie; Gertrude L. Russell; Mr. and Mrs. John W. Schmitt; Bernard Shockenesse; Mr. and Mrs. George J. Skinner; Lois D. Smith; Stanley Smith; Ule A. White; Mr. and Mrs. Cyril F. Williams; Mr. and Mrs. Leigh A. Wilson; and David M. Ziegler, Appellants, v. DEAN WITTER REYNOLDS, INC., a Delaware Corporation; Dominick Santangelo, individually; and Cottrell, Warchol, Merchant & Rollings, a Florida Limited Liability Partnership, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 19, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Josephs and Erin E. Dardis of Josephs, Jack, Miranda, McCullough & McKeown, P.A., Miami, for Appellants.

Bradford D. Kaufman, Joseph C. Coates, III, and Lorrie M. Gleim of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., West Palm Beach, for Appellees Dean Witter and Dominick Santangelo.

Albert M. Guemmer and Stephanie W. Ritt of Guemmer & Seymour, Tampa, for Appellees Cottrell, Warchol.

Harley S. Tropin and Thomas A. Tucker Ronzetti of Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, P.A., Miami, for Amicus Curiae Florida Receivers Forum.


ALTENBERND, Chief Judge.

Lewis B. Freeman, as receiver for NorthAmerican Financial Services, Inc. (NorthAmerican), and R.W. Abell and various other individual customers of NorthAmerican appeal a final order dismissing with prejudice their amended complaint against Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., Dominick Santangelo, and the law firm of Cottrell, Warchol, Merchant & Rollings, LLP (the Cottrell law firm). North American was incorporated by Peter Graziano and his wife...

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