Labor/Employment,
Civil Litigation
Dec. 20, 2021
Farmers ordered to pay ousted lawyer $155.4 million in damages
“It’s a healthy warning to corporations and entities in California that they can’t treat employees poorly; they’re not going to get away with it all the time.”
An in-house lawyer for Farmers who said he was fired because he was prepared to testify that the insurer pays male lawyers more than women lawyers won a $155.4 million wrongful termination lawsuit.
A jury in Los Angeles took 40 minutes Thursday to award Andrew Rudnicki, a former senior vice president of claims litigation, $150 million in punitive damages. On Tuesday, the jury awarded Rudnicki $5.4 million in compensatory damages.
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