An insurer’s attempts to reverse a magistrate judge’s sanctions in a Hurricane Sandy case have been denied.
Magistrate Judge Gary Brown (See Profile) on Nov. 7 had found that U.S. Forensic, an engineering firm for Wright National Flood Insurance Co., “secretly rewrote” a draft report about damage to a Long Beach home, reversing its conclusions in a so-called peer review process. The revised report attributed defects to long-term deterioration of the house, instead of damage from the storm (NYLJ, Nov. 13, 2014).
