Medical Lab Company Loses Appeal in $1.6M Retaliation Case

A Southern California medical diagnostics and laboratory company lost its bid to reverse an employee retaliation verdict that cost the company $1.6 million in 2016.

Scantibodies Laboratory Inc., which develops and manufactures medical tests and their components, was sued by two employees who were awarded that amount by a trial jury. The case likely represents the end of the yearslong, multimillion-dollar litigation, said Scott Tillett of Pine Tillett Pine LLP, counsel to the employees.

“I do not see any future appeals in this case,” Tillett told Bloomberg Law on Feb. 27. “This is not a published opinion, none of the ...