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Arbitrator rules against local bank in gender case: 'glass ceiling' plays into $900k judgment for ex-imperial capital VP.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-FEB-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Arbitrator rules against local bank in gender case: 'glass ceiling' plays into $900k judgment for ex-imperial capital VP.(Law)(Imperial Capital Bank)(Bobbi J. Koehler)

Article Excerpt
A former employee for Imperial Capital Bank in San Diego was awarded more than $900,000 in an arbitration case after she contended that she wasn't promoted or given stock options because of her gender.

Bobbi J. Koehler, a first vice president from 2003 to 2005 at the bank, which has $3 billion in assets, alleged she was passed over for promotion in favor of several male employees, all of whom had less experience in banking.

In arbitration hearings lasting 5 1/2 days last year, retired state appellate Judge Richard Neal ruled on Dec. 30 that Koehler would have been promoted, but for illegal discrimination based on her gender.

Koehler, 50, was awarded about $500,000 in back salary...

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