Security company ADT has prevailed in a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit against an alarm group they accused of engaging in unfair and deceptive business practices.

A jury in the Southern District of Florida reached a verdict awarding $4 million to ADT in its legal action against Alder Holdings, a Utah-based home security business owned and operated by Adam Schanz. Alder, Schanz and the subsidiary businesses listed in the complaint were accused by the plaintiff of instructing salespeople to present themselves as ADT-affiliated in order to persuade customers to purchase their alarms. According to ADT’s second amended complaint, “defendants have persisted in selling alarm systems to ADT customers by using false representations of affiliation that have confused ADT’s customers into believing that the defendants’ sales agents somehow represented ADT and were visiting to upgrade the customers’ existing ADT alarm systems” since 2012. Alder employees purportedly sought to push their products on houses sporting an ADT sign on their yards and driveways.

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