Travis Pantin of the New York Sun reports that the number of class action lawsuits filed against Wall Street firms surged in the last year, fueled by the meltdown in the subprime mortgage market, according to new research published yesterday.
There was a 43% jump in the number of securities fraud class action lawsuits last year to 166 suits — 100 of which were filed after the mortgage crisis hit, the study by Stanford Law School and Cornerstone Research.
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