Concealment of evidence by PNC Bank during a sexual harassment trial that ended in a $2.4 million verdict should warrant a new trial on punitive damages, according to a motion filed Wednesday by lawyers for a former bank employee.

Only after an Essex County jury’s Feb. 10 verdict in favor of former bank employee Damara Scott did it come to light that the bank intentionally withheld a video taken from an on-site security camera at its Glen Ridge branch, according to the motion filed by Scott’s attorneys, Nancy Erika Smith and Neil Mullin of Smith Mullin in Montclair, New Jersey, and Randy Davenport of Elizabeth, New Jersey. When police investigated the assault of Scott by bank customer Patrick Pignatello, PNC claimed it had no such video.

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