A federal jury in Pittsburgh awarded $12.5 million in punitive damages to a woman who was routinely called a “bitch” by her male colleagues at an insulation manufacturing plant in southwest Pennsylvania.
Although the award is likely the largest of its kind for an employment discrimination case in the Western District of Pennsylvania, it is also subject to a $300,000 cap in Title VII, the federal law under which it was brought.
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