Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, November 21, 1993                   TAG: 9311210090
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: SAN JOSE, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

WOMAN WINS PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION SUIT

Lana Ambruster, 28, said her boss at California Casualty Insurance Co. had threatened to fire her if she became pregnant.

In 1991, Ambruster said, she was put on probation the same day she told manager Michael Cross she was expecting a baby. She was fired 60 days later, with the company citing poor job performance.

Several former employees testified that he threatened to fire anyone who became pregnant, because the company had no room in the budget for maternity leave.

Mark Schickman, a lawyer for California Casualty, said the company will appeal.

Schickman said Cross was only kidding when he said he would fire employees who became pregnant. He said Ambruster was dismissed because of her performance. - Associated Press