The defendant brought a motion to remove the plaintiffs' lawyers of record due to a conflict of interest.
The plaintiffs' former counsel had obtained medical-legal reports from a company owned by her spouse without disclosing this relationship to the defendants.
Although the former counsel had been replaced, the new lawyers of record were from a successor firm operating out of the same office and employing lawyers from the former firm.
The court found that the conflict of interest had not been adequately addressed and that a fair-minded, reasonably informed member of the public would conclude that the proper administration of justice required the removal of the current lawyers of record.
The motion was granted.
