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Your Business Partner Switches Affiliations: Not Always a Winnable Action

A mortgage company which lost its pending loans to a competitor when its real estate lending office began working with the competitor lost its unfair business practices claims.  In February 2012, Division III of the Washington Court of Appeals affirmed the summary judgment dismissal of tortious interference and Washington Consumer Protection Act (CPA) claims between a real estate lending office and its former mortgage company affiliate.  In Evergreen Moneysource Mortgage Co. v. Shannon, No. 29766-7-III,

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