Split Court Rules on How Much Interactive Process Banker Was Due

A divided New York appellate panel ruled that an Italian bank sufficiently engaged in an interactive process to accommodate one of its disabled executives in a decision in which the majority rebuked plaintiff's counsel for his "hostile" response to the bank's overtures and traded sharp words with the dissenting members of the court. The case was Romanello v. Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A., No. 5372A 109314/09. Giuseppe Romanello, an executive employed at the New York branch of defendant Intesa Sanpaolo for 25 years, alleged that he became disabled by a disease that causes visual dist...