{"id":27004,"date":"2015-11-06T15:44:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=27004"},"modified":"2015-11-06T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:44:42","slug":"notice-of-claim-prompts-a-fast-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=27004","title":{"rendered":"Notice of Claim prompts a fast settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s how the threat of a viable lawsuit can work. First, this woman filed a Notice of Claim-<\/a>-usually it’s a one page form which precedes the filing of a lawsuit against a municipality–for sexual harassment by a municipal employee.<\/p>\n

My assumptions: the municipality evaluated her claim, probably deposed her, and decided her claim was so valid it’d be better financially for them to settle.<\/p>\n

They offered her money. Maybe she didn’t accept the first offer but she did accept $75,000. Her case is now settled, relatively quickly, without the cost and pain of filing a lawsuit and going through the entire procedure.<\/p>\n

Good for municipality, good for woman.<\/p>\n

Town Settles Secretary’s Notice of Claim for $75K<\/em><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Andrew Keshner\/Associated Press, New York Law Journal<\/small>

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The former personal secretary to a Long Island highway superintendent will receive $75,000 as part of a threatened sexual harassment lawsuit.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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