An Essex County jury awarded $3.36 million on Wednesday in a whistleblower suit by an insurance sales executive found to have been discharged for raising a protest to changes in the company’s commission plan.
James Powell, a vice president at Wachovia Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of Wachovia Corp., was terminated in 2007 after 12 years of service. The stated reason was that two e-mail messages on his office computer linked to racy videos, in violation of company policy, says his lawyer, Charles Schalk of Mauro, Savo, Camerino, Grant & Schalk in Somerville.
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