A Las Vegas benefits worker says she was fired days after returning from approved medical leave.
The employee had worked for Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. as a benefit advocacy representative since April 2019, according to a federal complaint filed on October 1, 2026 in the US District Court for the District of Nevada.
Then came the hernia surgery.
The complaint alleges that after the worker underwent the procedure on November 7, 2025, she took roughly three weeks of medical leave. Shortly after she returned, her employer placed her on a written performance improvement plan.
That followed a supervisor change in September 2025, after which the filing says the company began subjecting her to increased scrutiny.
On December 12, 2025, the worker contacted Gallagher's leave and accommodation department, the complaint states. She explained she could not handle back-to-back phone work for eight hours because of her health conditions - an anxiety disorder with panic attacks, irritable bowel syndrome, and a post-surgical hernia condition - and that her doctors supported limiting her phone duties.
She started approved intermittent FMLA leave on December 30, 2025, according to the filing.
What happened next, the complaint alleges, looked nothing like accommodation.
Rather than adjust her workload, the filing states Gallagher extended her performance improvement plan on January 23, 2026 and tried to move her from an email-based research advocate role into a call advocate position -...
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