Insurer Allstate settles age-bias lawsuit for $4.5 million
Posted: September 12, 2009 at 5:23 a.m.
Allstate Insurance Co. will pay $4.5 million to about 90 employees to settle an age-bias lawsuit stemming from the company's 1999 move to switch thousands of its agents from employees to independent contractors.
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Business, Pages 34 on 09/12/2009
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