ICM and TV writers settle age bias suit
August 20, 2008 by Lance Carter
International Creative Management agreed on Tuesday to pay $4.5 million to settle an age-discrimination suit brought by TV writers, the first of 23 such class-action cases to be resolved.
ICM is one 12 talent agencies first sued in 2000 along with various broadcast networks and studios by screenwriters aged 40 and over who claimed they were “gray-listed” by the television industry and squeezed out of jobs in favor of younger scribes.
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