He says he could out-type the whole team - then came the write-up
A 67-year-old former Allstate appraiser says his team leader called him “the old guy of the group,” then fired him for being too slow. Now he is suing.
The former employee filed suit against Allstate Insurance Company in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on September 3, 2026, alleging age discrimination and retaliation under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act, known as the ADEA, and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, or NJLAD.
According to the complaint, the appraiser joined Allstate in December 2024 and was later moved into a newly created remote unit that the company was bringing back in-house. He says he was told the assignment would last six months.
The appraiser, who says he had more than 35 years in the industry, alleges that his new team leader chuckled during an early virtual meeting and called him “the old guy of the group.” He found the remark hurtful and insulting, the filing says.
From there, the complaint describes a workload it says was “designed to set him up for failure.” Most adjusters handled roughly 10 to 15 claims, he alleges, while he was at one point carrying around 50. He says he was also handed a disproportionate share of West Coast and Central US files even though he worked from the East Coast - while a younger colleague, also on the East Coast, drew mostly local claims.
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