Legal Opinion
Ferber v. Travelers Corp.
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided January 9, 1992No. Civ. H-90-842 (AHN)PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON MOTION TO DISMISS
NEVAS, District Judge.
This is a five-count class action 1 in which twenty-two shareholders 2 (“the plaintiffs”) sue the Travelers Corporation (“Travelers”), Edward H. Budd (“Budd”), 3 Thomas 0. Thorsen (“Thorsen”), 4 Richard J. Shima (“Shima”), 5 (collectively, “the defendants”) for violations of federal securities and common law. The plaintiffs allege that in public statements and reports disseminated to the public between November 15, 1989 and October 5, 1990 (“the Class Period”), the defendants made material misrepresentations concerning Travelers’ net income,…
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