Activision Blizzard Sued By Family Of Employee Who Died By Suicide

IGN ^ | George Yang

[BenLurkin]

The family of an Activision Blizzard employee who died by suicide in 2017 is suing the company for wrongful death. The complaint from Janet and Paul Moynihan claims that sexual harassment at the company was a significant factor in the death of their daughter Kerri Moynihan, a 32-year old finance manager at Activision Blizzard who was found dead at an Activision Blizzard company retreat in 2017.

Moynihan's parents filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court. According to the report, Moynihan is the employee referenced in the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) lawsuit that was filed back in July last year.

The lawsuit calls Activision Blizzard liable for preventing the harassment Moynihan faced while working for the company including at a holiday party where explicit photos were passed around among employees. Activision Blizzard previously called the details in the DFEH lawsuit "distorted, and in many cases false." The wrongful death lawsuit also claims that Moynihan's direct manager, who has since departed Blizzard, lied to investigators from the Anaheim Police Department about his relationship with her.

[lee martell]

They are just now filing the lawsuit, five years after their daughter’s death?

[This_Dude]

Dude came onto her and she offed herself over it?

Bye bye, snowflake

[BenLurkin]

There’s a bit more to it than that.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

The article states harrassment, but that is such a broad term nowadays that it could mean almost anything.

I got bullied as a little girl, horribly, and it made me grow up to be emotionally impervious to insults and other verbal harrassment. It’s almost impossible to offend me at this point.

I wonder what it was that happened, but I’m sure we’ll find out eventually.

[higgmeister]

I remember Activision but I had never heard of Activision Blizzard, Inc.   It sounds like a stupid name to me.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in July 2008 through the merger of Activision, Inc. and Vivendi Games. It is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol ATVI, and since 2015 has been a member of the S&P 500 Index. Wikipedia?

[Bikkuri]

I remember Blizzard used to have great games (90s and early 200s). AND Warcraft series (and still have online World of Warcraft).
I remember Activision as being a console platform (right after Atari 2600), but had more buttons to push (or something like that).

(I also remember Apogee 😁)

[SPDSHDW]

Activision just got purchased by MS, if I recall right. More money to be had now then before.

[Mean Daddy]

Maybe they just received information pertinent to her death.

[Albion Wilde]

the harassment Moynihan faced while working for the company includ[ed] a holiday party where explicit photos were passed around among employees.

That's just extremely disgraceful behavior in the workplace. Or any place, really.

[cgbg]

Many employers have given up on those kinds of parties because of potential litigation—drunk employees can do lots of stupid things.