Texas Business Owner to Pay $5.7M for Workplace Sexual Harassment

The longtime owner and president of Home Marketing Services has been ordered to pay more than $5 million in damages, fees and interest after a judge found he repeatedly sexually harassed, sexually assaulted and retaliated against a female employee he supervised.

The decision follows a six-day bench trial before Dallas County Judge Sally Montgomery. She handed down her findings of fact Monday in the lawsuit a Jane Doe plaintiff filed against Robert “Bob” Lovell. Judge Montgomery found that Lovell sexually assaulted Doe and that there was evidence of ongoing sexual demands, coercion, retaliation and emotional and physical harm suffered by Doe.