A Los Angeles jury on Monday awarded former Times sports columnist T.J. Simers $15.4 million in damages against the newspaper for discrimination against him because of his age and disability.
Both Simers and Los Angeles Times, part of Chicago-based Tronc Inc., appealed the trial judge’s ruling. Tronc, now called Tribune Publishing, sold The Times to Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong in 2018.Sources familiar with the matter said that Tribune Publishing assumed liability for the Simers case as part of the sale. Tribune officials did not return calls seeking comment.
Shegerian said in an interview that Monday’s verdict after an eight-day trial was for non-economic damages, including personal and emotional suffering, as a result of his treatment by the company. In May 2013, The Times cut Simers’ three weekly columns to two in hopes of improving their quality, citing several recent ones that were “poorly written or reflected poorly” on the newspaper.
$22mm w/ interest. Age discrimination complaints are increasingly common in corporate America and managers are not being trained to handle critical conversations about this issue effectively. The costs - culturally and financially - are very real.
Send the bill to the Tribune folks in Chicago.
amazing how press barons believe their own baloney, get clobbered on retrials when they could've settled.
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