A terminated pharmaceutical company employee may add a whistleblower claim to her lawsuit, which otherwise would have time-barred, because it “relates back” to occurrences detailed in her original complaint, a state appeals court has ruled.
Allegations pleaded in the original complaint of Ada Damla Demir, who had been employed by Sandoz, a division of Novartis, “sufficed to give defendants notice of the transactions or occurrences to be proved in asserting the [whistleblower] claim,” wrote a unanimous Appellate Division, First Department, panel.
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