Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
44 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (2000–2025)
21 trusted published court opinions analyzed; 19 map to 16 distinct cases · 1 docket-only case without a recorded end date
What public court records show
Public federal court records list Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company as an employer in 44 distinct federal employment cases between 2000 and 2025.
Of the 21 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 11 ended in a ruling for the employer, 5 had a mixed result, 4 ended in a ruling for the worker, and 1 were dismissed.
Plaintiffs won 4 of 21 adjudicated opinions (19%).
The most common claims on record were Breach Of Contract, Retaliation, and Failure To Accommodate.
Cases were filed across 2 states, most often in OH.
These figures summarize publicly available U.S. federal court records only. Most workplace disputes are resolved privately and never appear in litigation. A case outcome reflects many factors and is not a finding that any employer violated the law.
Written decisions across 16 distinct cases.
4 of 21 adjudicated opinions ended in a plaintiff win.
Does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company appears in 21 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Blank v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. (2024) — Mixed Result. An employee filed a retaliation complaint against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, claiming they were punished for protected activity. The case involved both federal law (Title VII) and state law claims. Read the ruling.
Hoffman v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company Short-Term Disability Plan (2021) — Plaintiff Win. Lynne Hoffman applied for short-term disability benefits from her employer's insurance plan at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. The plan administrator denied her claim, refusing to provide the benefits she believed she was entitled to receive. Read the ruling.
Rodenbeck v. Nationwide Insurance (2020) — Defendant Win. A former Nationwide Insurance employee filed a lawsuit claiming the company discriminated against them based on disability, failed to provide necessary workplace accommodations, subjected them to harassment, retaliated against them for complaining, and wrongfully terminated their employment. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Breach of Contract (9 of 21), Retaliation (5 of 21), Failure to Accommodate (4 of 21). Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Breach of Contract, Retaliation and Failure to Accommodate.
Applicable statutes referenced across these rulings include: Title VII (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e – 2000e-17) — Title VII is the cornerstone federal anti-discrimination statute. See the Title VII reference page for filing deadlines, employee thresholds, and remedies. Title VII.
Published opinions span Ohio (6), Pennsylvania (3). Ohio is an EEOC deferral state, which extends the federal Title VII / ADA / ADEA filing deadline from 180 to 300 days. Browse state-specific employment rulings for jurisdictional patterns. Ohio rulings and Pennsylvania rulings.
These published opinions sit within the insurance sector, where claims-adjuster wage-and-hour disputes, age-discrimination, and whistleblower-retaliation claims are most common.
Opinion Outcomes
Opinion Stages
21 analyzed opinions have a classified procedural stage.
Of the 10 summary-judgment opinions, 5 ended the case in Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company’s favor and 5 let the worker’s claims continue.
What do these stages mean?
- Appeal
- A higher court reviewing an earlier decision. Many published opinions come from this stage, after a lot has already happened in the case.
- Summary judgment
- A ruling where the judge decides the case — or part of it — without a trial, because one side argues the key facts are not in dispute. For workers, getting past this step is often the biggest hurdle.
- Motion to dismiss
- An early request — usually by the employer — to throw the case out before any evidence is gathered.
Published federal-court opinions only — most workplace disputes are resolved privately. This is not anyone’s odds, and not a finding that any employer violated the law.
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What these numbers mean
A case is one lawsuit, identified by its court and docket number. The docket is the running court record for that same case — it is not an extra case.
A published opinion or ruling is a written court decision. One case can produce several opinions, so opinion counts and case counts answer different questions. Only trusted, reportable opinions are used in the outcome statistics on this page.
Docket entries are the individual filings inside a case — motions, orders, scheduling notices. We read them to confirm a case is real and to see where it got to, but an entry is never counted as a case or as an outcome. A single case can generate hundreds of entries.
Far fewer opinions than cases is normal. Many employment cases settle privately or close without a published opinion. No opinion here does not mean the worker lost; it means this public record does not show a reportable result.
Everything on this page comes from public federal court records. Where we are not confident a record is accurate, we leave it out rather than guess.
Federal court cases
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Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The presence of an employer on this page does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.