Fired Prudential Wholesaler to Get Age Bias, Retaliation Trial

Prudential Insurance of America may have fired a 53-year-old external wholesaler after 12 years because he was approaching retirement, not because of his allegedly poor performance, the District of Colorado ruled.

A trial is necessary to determine whether Ty Storlie’s allegedly declining sales and inability to comply with verbal and written performance warnings really were pretexts for age bias and retaliation under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, the court said.

It cited several disputed facts that must be decided by a fact-finder.

These include whether Storlie raised his age bias concerns, including his proximity ...