Case: Individual Employment Rights/Whistleblowing (D.N.J.)

USB Financial Services, Inc. is entitled to summary judgment on a former financial advisor’s claims that he was terminated in violation of the Florida Whistleblower Act because he reported potential misconduct by another financial advisor to USB, and he later testified about it before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a federal court in New Jersey ruled. The court found the financial advisor failed to show a causal connection between his protected activities—his April 2013 objections to a colleague’s conduct with respect to the trust account of a elderly client, and his related July 2014 testimony before FINRA—and his February 2016 ...