Opinion ID: 2708456
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Heading: Alleged Favoritism towards Mike Netterville

Text: Hutt also alleges that beginning in 2010, Lozen began to show favoritism towards Mike Netterville, another sales rep‐ resentative in Hutt’s sales territory. He was provided with an email list of new physician prospects that was not pro‐ vided to Hutt; he ended 2010 with a lower sales rank in the region than Hutt, but received public recognition and a bo‐ nus that Hutt did not, in part because Hutt’s performance evaluation by Westfall stated that her performance was un‐ acceptable. In 2011, the company began ranking Hutt and Netterville as if they were one sales unit, even though other sales representatives were ranked individually. The duo ended the year 2011 ranked third in the region for sales, and Netterville again earned recognition and compensation as a top sales representative, but Hutt did not. Again, the reason she did not earn the recognition is linked to her poor per‐ formance review: Lozen claims he was unable to rate Hutt’s overall performance because she cancelled on numerous field contacts with management during 2011. Hutt states that she participated in one field contact with Doug Zoeller, and that she was forced to cancel other field contacts for health No. 13‐1481 7 reasons, the death of her mother, and because Lozen refused to provide her with samples.