Loan Company to Pay $65,000 to Former Clerk Discharged After Objecting to Illegal Medical Exam CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Economy Finance, a personal loan company that formerly did business in Aransas Pass, Texas, will pay a former loan clerk $65,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC’s lawsuit, Civil Action No. 2:09-cv-00184, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division, charged that Economy Finance refused to allow an employee to return to work unless she submitted to a medical exam that would detect viruses. The company insisted that she take the exam after it became aware that her husband had a medical condition related to Hepatitis C. This medical exam was not job-related, according to the EEOC, because any possible safety risk to others posed by the loan clerk’s job duties would be insignificant. The EEOC further alleg...