Drew Capuder’s Employment Law Blog

I have prepared a chart containing a summary of West Virginia Supreme Court decisions significantly affecting employment law. The chart starts on January 1, 2009, with decisions issued after that date. The chart contains hyperlinks to the opinions, both on the West Virginia Supreme Court’s web site, and on Findlaw or on Google Scholar. If you click on the photos of each Justice (in the chart, not on the image above), that will take you to the biography page for that Justice on the Supreme Court’s web site. Finally, the chart contains hyperlinks to this blog.

Click the line below to open the chart, which is an Adobe Acrobat PDF:

WV Supreme Court Employment Decisions

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On October 1, 2009, a jury in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia returned a verdict in an age discrimination case, awarding James Nagy a total of $1,750,450.

That verdict consists of:

• $200,450 for past lost wages and benefits,

• $900,000 for future lost wages and benefits,

• $150,000 for humiliation,

• $150,000 for emotional distress, and

• $350,000 in punitive damages.

Under the West Virginia Human Rights Act (which prohibits age and other forms of discrimination in the workplace), Nagy’s counsel will file a motion additionally requesting attorneys’ fees and expenses.

James Nagy filed suit in Charleston in March 2008 against West Virginia American Water Company, alleging that he was fired in March 2007 because of his age at 53, after 23 years of employment.

James Nagy was represented by Maria W. Hughes and Stephen Weber at Kay Casto & Chaney PLLC. West Virginia American Water Company was represented by Mychal Schulz at Dinsmore & Shohl LLC.

The case is pending in Circuit Court in Kanawha County, West Virginia, before Judge Jennifer Bailey-Walker.

Prepared by Drew M. Capuder (contact information)