February 26, 2024 5:00 pm
• Last Updated: February 26, 2024 5:00 pm
New London ― The city will pay former risk manager Paul Gills $50,000 to settle a long-pending lawsuit in which Gills complained that bullying led to his abrupt resignation in 2020.
The settlement was approved by the City Council earlier this month and will be paid by the city’s insurance company, the Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency, according to terms of the settlement obtained by The Day on Monday. CIRMA is the same organization that awarded the city a risk management award in 2018, an award attributed to Gills’ work to mitigate liabilities such as lawsuits and lower insurance costs in the city.
Gills worked for the city from 2014 until Feb. 27, 2020 when he resigned following a confrontation with the city’s Chief Administrative Officer Steve Fields. Gills claimed in the suit that the confrontation was the culmination of a series of disagreements regarding labor issues that had led to friction between the two.
Gills, in the suit, describes Fields as having…
