Casey's General Store ordered to pay former employee $1.5M over harassment, retaliation

A Lincoln County jury has awarded a former employee of Casey’s General Store in Troy, Mo., more than $1.5 million in her sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, lawyers said Tuesday.

Heather Murray and another employee sued Casey’s in 2014, saying that they were repeatedly sexually harassed by a co-worker and then terminated when they complained.

Jurors awarded Murray $1 in actual damages on her sexual harassment claim and $54,000 in actual damages on her retaliation claim earlier this month, Murray lawyer Candace R. Burke said.

Punitive damages were $1 million and $500,000, respectively, on the claims, she said.

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