Appellate Court Rejects Attempt to Disqualify Law Firm Representing Plaintiffs in Separate Matters With Care One Management

"The panel now permits a firm who is seeking financial information to establish punitive damages to also represent the very person at the defendant who was the highest ranking financial officer who was charged with litigation strategy and the production of the financial documents," Counsel for Care One, Bruce H. Nagel of Nagel Rice said in an email to the Law Journal. "And to make matters worse, secretly emailed himself the same financial information that plaintiffs counsel has been seeking in the underlying case. The decision is simply inexplicable."

January 17, 2024 at 07:03 PM

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Discovery

Colleen Murphy

"Inference and innuendo" are not enough to disqualify law firm Castronovo & McKinney from representing a plaintiff in a suit against Care One, while the firm also represents a former employee fired by the company over documents related to discovery in the case, according to the Appellate Division.