SageSure Insurance Company Facing Lawsuit Over Alleged Pay Discrimination Against Female Employees

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A proposed collective action accuses SageSure Insurance Managers, LLC of maintaining pay and promotion policies that systematically discriminate against female employees.

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The 22-page lawsuit was filed by a former insurance adjuster who alleges she was intentionally paid less than male workers in comparable positions, and that the company purposely promoted males over female employees despite their male colleagues having “objectively less responsibility, education, and experience.”

The suit claims that the New Jersey-based insurance company’s “consistent and deliberate gender-based wage discrimination against women” has violated the plaintiff’s and other female employees’ rights under the federal Equal Pay Act.

According to the case, SageSure separates the insurance adjuster position into three levels and purports to assign Level I Adjuster, Level II Adjuster or Level III Adjuster status based on years of experience. Adjusters—who determine if a client’s claim is covered by their insurance and calculate payout based on the client’s policy—earn greater pay and receive a better bonus structure if they are assigned or promoted to higher levels, the complaint explains.

However, SageSure “repeatedly” pays male adjusters more and provides them with a more favorable bonus structure than female employees with the same or more experience in the position, the filing alleges. The lawsuit also contends that the defendant frequently promotes male workers to higher levels of the adjuster position or to management roles within the company instead of promoting comparable female employees.

The suit charges that as a result of SageSure’s “discriminatory pay practices and policies,” higher-level adjusters and team managers are “overwhelmingly male.”

The plaintiff, an Alabama resident who worked as a Level II Adjuster from approximately February 2022 to March 2023, claims that although she had the same title and performed work equivalent to that of her male counterparts, she was “consistently” paid less than these colleagues and other male employees who had significantly less experience.

“[SageSure’s] unequal payment of compensation to males compared to [the plaintiff] and other female Adjusters was not made in accordance with any seniority system, merit system, a system which measured earnings by quantity or quality of production, or a differential based on any factor other than sex,” the case contests.

The proposed collective action looks to represent any current or former female insurance adjusters who worked for SageSure at any time within the past three years.

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