Yeah, we represented a nice young man who had been cheated. He didn’t have a lot of money, and he bought a used Taurus for $18,000. He had been assured by one of the largest Ford dealers in the country that it had never been in an accident.

After purchasing the car, he found out that it was actually a rebuilt wreck. He got a Carfax report showing that it had been in a serious accident. We hired an expert who confirmed that there was frame damage. We went to trial and argued that, instead of being treated as he expected, he had been completely betrayed. He had trusted this dealer—he had even bought a car from them in the past. He believed that, as a large, reputable new car dealership, they would be honest with him. Instead, he was treated as if he had bought a car from a small used car lot on Western Avenue.

We presented our case via Zoom arbitration because this was during COVID. The arbitrator awarded him $10,000 in actual damages, $10,000 for aggravation and inconvenience, $60,000 in punitive damages, and all of our attorney’s fees.