Employee Fails To Add GEICO To Discrimination Suit Against Its Franchisee

Mealey's (March 31, 2020, 2:11 PM EDT) -- NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey federal magistrate judge on March 25 denied an employee’s motion to add Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) to his discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against a franchised third-party vendor of GEICO because there are no specific allegations that GEICO asserts control over the franchisee (Nasser Saleh v. Egglinger Insurance Agency, LLC, et al., No. 19-13944, D. N.J., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51350)....