Puerto Rico Medicare Provider Wins Age Discrimination Case

A former employee of MMM Holdings Inc. failed to show that the company’s reason for firing her was a pretext for age discrimination, the First Circuit ruled Aug. 26.

MMM operates a health insurance plan for beneficiaries of Medicare Advantage in Puerto Rico. Carmen Rodríguez-Cardi worked as a sales representative for MMM. She was placed on an “action plan” due to her alleged failure to meet her productivity goals, including her sales quotas, and was given a final warning to improve. MMM says she was fired because an investigation found she’d engaged in an unauthorized door-to-door solicitation of a Medicare ...