Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.

A recent news release published on the Class Action Newsline reports Regions Morgan Keegan has suffered another defeat at the hands of a FINRA arbitration panel in Boca Raton, Fla., which awarded $431,000 to plaintiff Philip Richardson for his losses in RMK investment funds. This is the latest in a string of judgments against Regions Financial Corp.’s Memphis-based Morgan Keegan unit.

Lawsuits filed on behalf of investors allege the RMK investment funds were misrepresented as low-risk high-yield funds, when in fact they were tied to the volatile mortgage lending industry. When the industry went bust, investors lost up to 80 percent of their savings, practically overnight. It is estimated that pending arbitration cases against RMK are related to more than $2 billion in losses sustained by investors holding RMK proprietary bond mutual funds.

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