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 the New York office was denied.
Logan also describes ongoing discomfort with her direct manager, Carl LaRosa. The complaint alleges that during a December 14, 2022 client-related meeting, her manager stared at her breasts, chuckled, and appeared to have an erection. Logan says she had observed her manager staring at her breasts on other occasions and began wearing larger shirts and dressing in layers to cover her breast area. The filing says that when Logan tried to raise his conduct during a January 2023 "coffee chat," her manager blurted out, "I don't date my Consultants," and walked away.
After she reported the coworker, Logan alleges, her manager - whom she describes as a friend of the coworker's - became shorter with her, yelled at her, and scrutinized her attendance.
The HR side of the story is where the case will land hardest for workplace leaders. Logan took approved FMLA leave from approximately June 7 through August 20, 2023 for depression and PTSD. Her clinician cleared her to return fully remote, except for onsite client visits. FactSet denied that on August 25 and offered an assigned second-floor desk in Norwalk for three months, plus two weeks of remote work on Wednesdays as a transition from leave.
After her return, Logan says Lead HR Business Partner Christopher Richardson imposed an 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. requirement on her that was not in the company-wide return-to-office communication. The HR partner also required her to email him a list of all scheduled PTO and appointments through year-end. The complaint alleges he "later admitted that no other employees at that time were required to email him regarding their PTO use," and that he made similar admissions about office-arrival emails, doctor-appointment lists, and the eighth-floor booth where Logan sometimes worked.
On December 7, 2023, Logan says the HR partner confronted her at the office about her arrival time. The complaint describes the encounter as "combative and aggressive" and alleges he told her her PTO use was "not a good look." According to the filing, he then "stated or implied that he could create new policies preventing Plaintiff from taking PTO or medical leave and that he could 'do anything he wanted.'"
Logan says she suffered a severe anxiety attack, went to the emergency department, and was diagnosed with anxiety, chest pain, and panic attack. At 11:27 a.m. the same day, she emailed the HR partner requesting FMLA leave. FactSet terminated her the following day.
The termination letter, according to the complaint, said Logan claimed she was in the office shortly after 9 a.m., that the HR partner found her desk empty around 10 a.m., and that company records showed she did not arrive until after 11 a.m. The letter also accused her of having "consistently attempted to limit" her in-office attendance "by any means necessary." Logan says the reasons were false and pretextual.
Logan also alleges FactSet delayed her vacation payout of $1,563.12 until the December 21, 2023 pay statement, roughly ten days past Connecticut's next-business-day deadline under Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 31-71c and 31-72.
The complaint reaches beyond Logan's own treatment. On information and belief, it alleges that the same HR partner similarly scrutinized at least one other Black female employee returning from protected medical leave, and that two former male FactSet leaders were previously terminated for sexual harassment.
Logan's claims span Title VII, the ADA, the FMLA, Section 1981, the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act, the Connecticut FMLA, Connecticut wage law, and emotional distress. The EEOC issued a Notice of Right to Sue on March 4, 2026; the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities released jurisdiction on February 9, 2026.
The allegations have not been tested in court. FactSet has not yet filed a response, and no court has ruled on the claims.
