Her supervisor signed off on the travel twice - then it became a 'policy violation'
A 26-year Eli Lilly veteran says the company fired her after she complained of bias and asked for disability accommodations.
That is the claim in a lawsuit filed July 22, 2026 in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiff, described in the complaint as a Chinese American woman who worked as a senior director in the drugmaker's IT group, alleges a chain of events that began with a work trip her own supervisor had approved.
According to the filing, the director had the authority at her level to approve work travel, including her own. In March 2025 she authorized a trip to a pharmaceutical conference in Boston, where she had been invited to chair a session. Her supervisor approved the expense report before she left and the receipts after she returned, the complaint says.
The filing alleges the treatment shifted after that trip. The director was in a car accident during travel and injured her chest, an injury she says is a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. She reported the accident and injuries to the company, according to the complaint. Around April 2025, the filing alleges, a senior manager two levels above her became hostile, and he and her supervisor determined the approved travel was unauthorized. Her supervisor documented a "Travel Policy Violation" in her mid-year performance check-in, the complaint says.
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