Facts

Plaintiff Maria Inga was a former employee of Assent Mortgage, LLC, a mortgage lender. She worked for the company for approximately 14 months. She was 22 years old when she began working for defendants. Her pay rate at the time her employment ended was $21.00 per hour.

Plaintiff was also sexually harassed and discriminated against during her employment. Among other things, Plaintiff was the target of lewd sexual comments. A supervisor also made sexual advances to plaintiff, stalked her outside of work, and even threatened her job if she did not accept the supervisor's advances.

Plaintiff repeatedly complained to defendants about their prohibited practices. Defendants did not remedy their practices. Instead, they retaliated against plaintiff, ultimately terminating plaintiff.

PLAINTIFF'S CONTENTIONS: Defendants failed to pay plaintiff all of her wages, including overtime wages, and failed to provide her meal and rest periods.

DEFENDANT'S CONTENTIONS: Defendants argued that they had legitimate business reasons for terminating plaintiff, such as attendance issues and the harasser obtaining a restraining order against plaintiff.

Settlement Discussions

Defendants made a CCP 998 offer of $25,000. Plaintiff made a CCP 998 offer of $100,000.

Damages

$239,098

Result

Jury verdict in favor of Plaintiff for $583,013 and against all defendants.

Deliberation

two days

Length

four weeks