Superstorm Sandy Judges Refuse to Change Course on Altered Engineering Report Order

NEW YORK — Federal magistrate judges assigned to more than 1,000 Superstorm Sandy cases in New York will not reconsider a far-reaching discovery order issued in the wake of recent evidence indicating that certain engineering reports were improperly altered to limit or eliminate coverage for storm-related damage.

In a Dec. 11 order denying more than 100 motions to reconsider its Nov. 7 decision that called the engineering practices “reprehensible” and “widespread,” the three-judge committee in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District court noted that the decision’s discovery requirements are no more stringent than those put in place at …