Enlarge / Activision’s publishing HQ in Santa Monica, California. (credit score: Activision)
The mother and father of former Activision worker Kerri Moynihan have filed a wrongful dying lawsuit towards Activision Blizzard, alleging that the harassment she suffered working on the firm contributed to her 2017 suicide at a company retreat.
The Los Angeles Superior Court docket lawsuit, which was filed Thursday and was initially reported by The Washington Publish, alleges that the hostile work surroundings Moynihan was subjected to throughout her time on the Activision finance division contributed to her premature dying in 2017 at age 32. That dying, which the lawsuit says was dominated a suicide by the Orange County coroner, got here throughout an Activision firm retreat at Disney’s Grand Californian Resort & Spa.
The brand new lawsuit quotes closely from the California Division of Honest Employment and Housing lawsuit filed towards Activision final July. That earlier go well with is used to ascertain that the corporate “fostered and permitted a sexually hostile work surroundings to exist through which feminine staff have been routinely sexually harassed, belittled, disparaged, and discriminated towards, and Activision failed and refused to take corrective motion or affordable steps to forestall that harassment.”
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