Nationwide Mutual Lawyer With Amputated Legs Gets Bias Trial

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. may have discriminated against an in-house attorney who had portions of both legs amputated after developing vascular disease, a federal judge ruled.

A jury must decide whether the insurer fired Kevin Greenwood on the basis of his disability, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said June 3. Nationwide pointed to Greenwood’s documented performance problems, but there’s evidence a non-disabled attorney with similar performance deficiencies wasn’t discharged, the court said.

There’s also evidence the other attorney was given more than a year to do better while Greenwood only got a few months before ...