Black Northwestern Mutual Executive Resolves Retaliation Lawsuit

A Black executive has formally dropped his lawsuit accusing the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance office for which he worked of denying him a promotion in retaliation for his race bias complaints.

The US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin accepted a stipulation of dismissal with prejudice and without costs or fees to any party on Monday.

• Dominic Johnson, a former district director at Kosnick Financial Group Inc. alleged that its principal, Josh Kosnick, had been “furious about” a bias complaint made to Northwestern Mutual’s chief diversity officer which led to him being denied promotion to managing director
• Kosnick ...