On May 8, 2026, a federal court jury in Maryland awarded Wachen LLC's clients $250,000 in compensatory and punitive damages from false and defamatory statements posted on social media (Twitter/X and Wikipedia) and communicated to the clients' health insurance providers. The Defendant had accused the Plaintiffs (a retired professional athlete and his wife) of committing insurance fraud and other bad acts. The Defendant had also obligated one of the Plaintiffs for private schoo

Designed by FreePik At the conclusion of a five-day trial, a Virginia jury awarded a Wachen LLC client $924,996 in compensatory and punitive damages stemming from a fake online Tripadvisor review. The successful plaintiff is a massage therapist at a top DC-area hotel spa who was suspended as a result of an anonymous Tripadvisor review accusing him of predatory behavior in a massage encounter that never happened. Although the Spa concluded after investigating that the review

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