National Mortgage News, which first reported the lawsuit, noted that APM is not listed as a defendant in the complaint.
UHM alleges that regional manager Craig Franczak resigned and transitioned to APM in January 2025, despite a two-year non-solicitation clause that he agreed to.
The complaint continues that eight of Franczak’s former employees followed him to his new post.
UHM also claims that some of its former employees, including Robert Webb, a former branch manager, and Bobby Liu, a former team lead, received sign-on bonuses that had clawback clauses, meaning that to receive the bonus and not have to pay parts back, the associates had to stay at UHM for two years.
UHM claims that most of the originators did not follow the clauses of the contracts and that the collective group owes it over $100,000.
UHM did not immediately respond to HousingWire’s request for comment on Thursday.
This is not the Ohio-based company’s first litigation against former employees. In late 2023, Union Home sued Go Mortgage and EMM Loans for accessing its trade secrets via the transition of former employees.
The lawsuit news comes on the tails of UHM’s announcement of the acquisition of Houston-based Nations Reliable Lending (NRL).
