Appel-Hole v. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories

Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles E. Ramos, J.), entered February 16, 2016 and February 19, 2016, which, to the extent appealed from, denied third-party defendants’ motions to dismiss the third-party claims for contribution based on liability for common-law fraud, unanimously reversed, on the law, with costs, and the motions granted.

Intervenor plaintiffs in each of these three actions were the plaintiffs in the New York Diet Drug Litigation. They were represented in the litigation by intervenor defendants/third-party plaintiffs, who negotiated settlements (settling counsel).…