EEOC Sues Solera Holdings for Disability Discrimination

BALTIMORE - Solera Holdings, LLC, a Westlake, Texas-based vehicle lifecycle management company, violated federal law when it denied a blind employee the same job-related support and resources provided to other employees and then fired him, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Solera transferred the longtime employee, who worked from his home in Bel Air, Maryland, from a consultant position to a sales position due to the employee's degenerative eye disease. After transferring him to sales, the company limited his opportunities to succeed, including by allowing him to sell only one product, failing to give him sales leads, and excluding him from meetings and trainings. Solera's adverse treatment of the employee hampered his performance in the sales position, which the company relied upon to justify his termination in August 2025.

"The ADA was enacted to ensure that employers do not disadvantage workers because of their disabilities," said Debra Lawrence, regional attorney for the EEOC's Philadelphia District. "The EEOC will enforce the law and protect workers with disabilities when, as in this case, an employer undermined their ability to perform the job, and then relied on job performance to justify their termination."

The alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination based on disability. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Solera Holdings, LLC, Case No. 1:26-cv-04393) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its administrative conciliation process.

Karen McDonough, acting director of the EEOC's Baltimore Field Office, said, "The ADA requires employers to give employees with disabilities an equal opportunity to succeed. Instead, this company allegedly denied this employee the same opportunities afforded to his colleagues and set him up to fail. Employers cannot deny workers opportunities because of a disability."

For more information on disability discrimination, please visit https://www.eeoc.gov/disability-discrimination .

The EEOC's Philadelphia District Office has jurisdiction over Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, and portions of New Jersey and Ohio. Attorneys in the Philadelphia District Office also prosecute discrimination cases in Washington, D.C., and portions of Virginia.

The EEOC is the sole federal agency authorized to investigate and litigate against businesses and other private sector employers for violations of federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. For public sector employers, the EEOC shares jurisdiction with the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. The EEOC also is responsible for coordinating the federal government's employment antidiscrimination effort. More information about the EEOC is available at www.eeoc.gov .