A title insurance company involved in litigation with a competitor should have been granted a little more time to obtain an affidavit of merit after it learned well into the litigation that its expert had a conflict of interest, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.

A two-judge Appellate Division panel said the interests of justice would have been better served had a Morris County trial judge granted a brief extension of time, even though the deadline for the end of discovery had expired.

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