New York Justice Orders Supplemental Discovery In Asbestos-Talc Case

(October 29, 2020, 1:55 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — An asbestos-talc plaintiffs’ supplemental discovery requests cannot be both duplicative of existing requests and a production burden and, in any case, the defendant failed to comply with case management orders mandating that it suggest an alternative option and confer with plaintiffs in an attempt to resolve the dispute, a New York justice held Oct. 27 in ordering production (Betsey P. Hardman, et al. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., et al., No. 190443/2018, N.Y. Sup., New York Co.)....