An appeals court has ruled that interviews between an attorney and employees of a company sued in a personal injury case are privileged and not accessible to the plaintiff’s counsel.

The state Superior Court overturned a Philadelphia judge’s ruling in Newsuan v. Republic Services that neither attorney-client privilege nor attorney work-product privilege applied to interviews between general counsel for defendant Republic Services and 16 nonparty Republic Services workers identified by plaintiff Karen Newsuan as potential eyewitnesses to her injury.

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