Mealey's (January 13, 2022, 1:47 PM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — A split California appellate panel on Jan. 11 reversed a trial court’s grant of nonsuit on a property manager’s claim for punitive damages against a financial institution that persuaded the manager’s former elderly client to hire it as her real estate manager, finding that a jury hearing his claims for violation California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other statutes may have found the institution acted with fraud or malice....