Laid-off Workers Can’t Chase Dropped Party to Collect Judgment

Laid-off Bristol Compressors International LLC employees challenging their 2018 terminations can’t bring claims against a purportedly related company they’d dropped from their earlier lawsuit, the Fourth Circuit held Tuesday.

The employees, who won judgments worth more than $4 million in their lawsuit accusing Bristol of WARN Act and ERISA violations, sought to collect from Garrison Investment Group LP after being unable to collect from their insolvent former employer. They said Garrison could be liable for this amount because it held a stake in Bristol and “participated in” the shuttering of the Virginia manufacturing facility where they worked.

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