Murillo, Blinn said, was then told the dealership would be able to obtain financing with a different lender, but for 19 percent interest. The car's total cost was $9,880, so Murillo put down $5,000 as a down payment to seal the deal on a loan at an annual percentage rate of 13 percent.īut soon after, Blinn said, Murillo received a call from A Better Way saying there was a problem with her credit application and that the bank didn't want to finance the loan. Murillo finalized paperwork on a 2008 Lexus IS-250 in February 2017.
But the Nicolai award is by far the highest against A Better Way, according Blinn, managing attorney for Rocky Hill-based Consumer Law Group.īlinn was seeking just $13,437 in punitive damages for his client.
Almost all, he said, went in his favor, many resulting in awards of judgment. Of these cases, 21 are closed and 18 are active. Plaintiff counsel Dan Blinn had 39 previous claims leveled against the company, which bills itself as New England's highest-volume independent dealer. In his decision, Nicolai noted there had been several prior arbitration awards and court decisions issued against the company. Nicolai, president of the Nicolai Law Group, wrote that he was awarding $234,708 in punitive damages, or 25 times the amount he was awarding in actual and statutory damages against Naugatuck-based A Better Way Wholesale Autos, "to discourage violation of its statutes and to hopefully, finally dissuade respondent … from its method of business." In his scathing five-page ruling, which was emailed to both parties Wednesday, Springfield, Massachusetts-based arbitrator Paul Nicolai said he was awarding much more than plaintiff Rebecca Murillo had requested to send a message. (b) by adding reference to used car dealer, effective July 1, 2015.An arbitrator awarded $261,596 to a Meriden woman who sued an independent car dealer for breach of contract on arguments it pressured and deceived her into signing a second contract with provisions she hadn't agreed to, and at a higher percentage rate. (2) re dealer conveyance fee, and amended Subsec. (1) and amending same to replace “stated” with “advertised” and by adding Subdiv. (a) by designating existing provision re exclusion from price as Subdiv.
#CT DEALER CONVEYANCE FEE LAW 2017 REGISTRATION#
14-52, to require the advertisement to state in at least eight-point bold type that state or local tax, registration fees or dealer conveyance fee or processing fee is excluded from the advertised price, effective JJune Sp. (a) to expand the dealers subject to this section from new car dealers to dealers licensed under Sec. 84-429 made technical change for statutory consistency P.A.
#CT DEALER CONVEYANCE FEE LAW 2017 LICENSE#
The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may suspend or revoke, in accordance with section 14-64, the license of any such dealer violating the provisions of this section. (b) Any new or used car dealer violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars. (a) No dealer licensed under the provisions of section 14-52 shall advertise the price of any motor vehicle unless the stated price in such advertisement includes the federal tax, the cost of delivery, dealer preparation and any other charges of any nature, except that such advertisement shall (1) state in at least eight-point bold type that any state or local tax, registration fees or dealer conveyance fee or processing fee, as defined in subsection (a) of section 14-62, is excluded from such advertised price, and (2) separately state, in at least eight-point bold type, immediately next to the phrase “Dealer Conveyance Fee”, the amount of such dealer conveyance fee or processing fee.
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