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Company: CLA Estate Services, Inc. and CLA USA, Inc.
Penalty: $14,400,000
Year: 2021
Date: March 31, 2021
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: A King County Superior Court judge ruled that CLA Estate Services, Inc. and CLA USA, Inc. had to pay a total of more than $6.1 million plus 12 percent annual interest to 1,100 Washington seniors for misleading them about estate planning and other deceptive conduct. The company was also ordered to pay $6.5 million in civil penalties and $1.8 million to the Attorney General's Office for legal costs and fees.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Washington Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Washington
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