Once litigation was filed, the Company refused to take Plaintiff’s case seriously claiming that the name calling based on sexual orientation was just horseplay and that the pornography was not based on Plaintiff’s gender, thus, it could not form the basis of the sexual harassment claim.
After Winer, Burritt & Scott, LLP, defeated a motion to the court to have the case thrown out of court, the defense finally settled one month before trial.
RESULT: $450,000 settlement on behalf of Plaintiff