Triffin v. Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

LYONS, J.S.C.,

temporarily assigned.

Defendant, Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (“ADP”), appeals an order for remittitur, reducing a jury verdict of $132,600 in compensatory damages and $50,000 in punitive damages entered on defendant’s counterclaim, which asserted plaintiff, Robert J. Triffin (“Triffin”), committed common law fraud against defendant. Plaintiff cross-appeals claiming that defendant lacks standing to assert its common law fraud claim against plaintiff; and that the trial court erred when it allowed defendant’s claim for investigatory…