Alcoa Settles ADA Case Brought by Worker Alleging Failure to Accommodate Pulmonary Disease

INDIANAPOLIS – Alcoa Inc. has settled a lawsuit filed by an employee at its Lafayette, Ind., extrusion facility alleging that the company failed to accommodate a known lung disability and instead assigned him to work duties that exposed him to harmful heat and smoke.

Judge James T. Moody of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana signed an order Oct. 18 directing the clerk of court to enter judgment with prejudice within 30 days unless the parties fail to finalize their agreement and move for postponement.

Details of the settlement, which resulted from meetings with mediator John …