A decision earlier this month by a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel could be a good sign for Wall Street brokers whose reputations have been sullied by bad advice from their firms, Reuters reports.

Not only did the panel order that UBS AG should pay its former broker Edward Dulin $5.4 million for business lost because of complaints on his record, but it also recommended that the complaints —all 39 of them—be expunged.