HR tracked every doctor visit after she reported a coworker hit her, lawsuit says
HR fired a Black consultant a day after she requested medical leave, a new federal lawsuit says. The HR partner allegedly singled her out for weeks.
Kerrilee Logan, a former Client Solutions Consultant at FactSet Research Systems, filed a 14-count complaint against the financial-data firm in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on May 11, 2026. She says the company did not adequately separate her from a coworker she had reported for sexual assault, denied a clinician's remote-work recommendation, and terminated her roughly 24 hours after she requested FMLA leave.
The case turns on what HR did, and did not do, after Logan reported being assaulted by a coworker.
According to the filing, Logan attended a company holiday event in Fairfield, Connecticut on January 18, 2023. At a nearby bar afterward, the complaint says a coworker, Joshua Fennessey, pushed her in the left breast with an open right hand hard enough to make her stumble backward. Logan says she woke the next morning with significant pain, sought medical treatment, and filed a police report with the Fairfield Police Department.
She says she reported the incident internally on February 6, 2023. By February 24, the complaint states, FactSet investigators told her they had been "unable to substantiate" the allegations and instructed her and the coworker to act "courteously and professionally." Her request to transfer to...
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