New York County Data Entry Worker Product Liability Litigation v. A.B. Dick Co.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen Crane, J.), entered August 3, 1994, which in a products liability action to recover for repetitive stress injury, *382granted plaintiffs’ motion for a protective order against preverdict disclosure to nonsettling defendants-appellants of materials relating to the settlement agreement between plaintiffs and the settling defendants, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The settlement material that defendants-appellants seek, in derogation of the confidentiality agreement that attended it, is not material and necessary to their defense of the action.…