Legal Opinion

Nancy Heisler v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided July 30, 2019No. 18-1588PublishedCited by 41 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GRASZ, Circuit Judge.

Nancy Heisler sued her employer, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company ("Nationwide"), alleging discrimination against her on the basis of her sex and her age. The district court 1 granted summary judgment to Nationwide, and Heisler appeals. We affirm.

I. Background

Heisler is a Certified Public Accountant who has worked for Nationwide through its subsidiary companies in Des Moines, Iowa, since November 1985. She began in a subsidiary company that was then called Farmland Insurance. From 1986 until 2002, she worked on an hourly contract basis. In the late 1990s, when…

2Cases cited17 opinions

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