Tina Haskenhoff v. Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC

WATERMAN, Justice.

In this appeal, we must decide whether the district court correctly denied an employer’s motion for new. trial following a $1.4 million jury verdict for the plaintiff on claims under the Iowa Civil Rights Act (ICRA) for employment discrimination *562based on sexual harassment by a direct supervisor and coemployees. The employer argues the district court erred by submitting a direct negligence claim instead of vicarious liability for supervisor harassment and misinstructed the jury on the elements of proof, the causation standard for retaliation, the definition of adverse…