Sentences with phrase «subsequent action against another defendant»

We hold that a person who sues on or settles a claim for a non-malignant asbestosis - related disease with one Defendant is not precluded from a subsequent action against another Defendant for a distinct malignant asbestos - related condition...»

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Fair Laboratory Practices Associates v. Quest Diagnostics Inc., the Second Circuit upheld a Southern District of New York ruling which dismissed an action brought by the former general counsel of the defendant Unilab Corp., a wholly - owned subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics Inc., as well as his co-relators, Unilab's former CEO and CFO and disqualified them and their external counsel from bringing any subsequent related qui tam action seeking a whistleblower aware, on the basis that «such measures were necessary to prevent the use of [the former general counsel's] unethical disclosures against defendants.»