State Farm Fights Off Black Worker’s Race Bias, Retaliation Case

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is free of a Black ex-employee’s race discrimination suit after a federal judge granted the company an early win on the remaining hostile work environment and retaliation claims.

The fired worker didn’t provide evidence supporting a plausible inference that State Farm terminated her because she reported a racist letter from an anonymous coworker, and the company isn’t liable for the letter because it took prompt and appropriate corrective action, the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan said.

Carla Campbell-Jackson worked for State Farm for nearly three decades, culminating in a ...