January 05, 2024
New York state told a federal court it will pay $500,000 to resolve a nurse's suit alleging a state agency was slow to act when she reported that a co-worker was making inappropriate comments and sexually assaulting her.
March 27, 2023
A New York state agency must face accusations that it violated Title VII by failing to prevent the pervasive and severe on-the-job sexual harassment of a nurse, a federal judge ruled Monday, allowing that claim to proceed to trial alongside state-level claims against the nurse's supervisors and assailant.
March 16, 2021
A New York federal judge said Tuesday that a state agency for people with developmental disabilities cannot ditch a nurse's claims that she was subjected to persistent sexual harassment and assault from a co-worker and faced retaliation from supervisors after she went to the police and filed internal complaints.