A popular Keller Williams franchisee and the CEO of numerous Texas-based Keller Williams workplaces has actually dropped her sexual misbehavior claim versus Keller Williams, Gary Keller and others.
Inga Dow, the CEO of Keller Williams Real Estate Fort Worth and Keller Williams Real Estate Johnson County in Texas, submitted a notification on Monday in the U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Fort Worth dismissing all her claims versus all offenders in the fit other than previous Keller Williams CEO John Davis.
Davis still deals with claims of tortious disturbance and breach of fiduciary task.
In her modified grievance submitted in late March 2022, Dow declared that she had actually sustained years of sexual misbehavior, harassment and abuse at Davis’s hands which Keller Williams not did anything to deal with the habits and penalized her for reporting it.
In addition, the grievance declared a general culture at Keller Williams that motivated female workers “to do whatever it required to make sales and ‘get along’ with leading entertainers to keep them pleased,” consisting of carrying out “sexual favors or acts for male equivalents and/or leading customers.”
In the grievance, Dow likewise declared that Davis required sex from her on numerous events which she felt “she had no option however to give in, due to the fact that Davis was backed and supported by Keller, CEO and Creator of KWRI, which offered Davis a high degree of power within KWRI.” When Dow withstood Davis’ supposed advances, she declares that he struck back by postponing her application to open a market center in Johnson County.
The grievance called fellow market center owner David Osborn, KW local director Smokey Garrett, and Go Management, the business that runs KW’s Fort Worth local workplace, as extra offenders.
The claim consisted of 11-counts versus Keller Williams and Go Management. In September 2022, the court bought all of Dow’s claims, other than those versus Davis, into arbitration.
On Tuesday, Davis submitted a movement to re-open the case, which was remained in 2015 due to the arbitration. Due to the stay, Davis’ movements to dismiss the fit and strike “all immaterial, impertinent and outrageous matter from the Original Grievance and First Amended Grievance,” which were submitted in early April 2022, have yet to be ruled upon.
” We mean to and aspire to progress with our case,” Paul Omodt, a representative for Davis, composed in an e-mail. “Our claims and counterclaims are still pending and we will see them through. The reality matters– and we will excited to share the reality with the court. “
In the fall of 2022, Davis submitted his own claim versus Keller Williams, Keller and Josh Group, triggered by his desire to “restore his track record and clear his reputation” in light to Dow’s sexual misbehavior accusations.
According to the preliminary grievance, Davis resigned from his position at Keller Williams in January 2019 due to a difference with Keller over a service technique that he felt would harm the earnings created by Keller Williams workplaces.
In action to his resignation, Davis declared that Keller and Group smeared him and kept Inga Dow’s allegations of sexual misbehavior from him as he was working out the sale of his KW market center areas following his resignation. This led to 10s of millions in monetary losses, according to Davis.
In March, Colleen and Bart Basinski, previous Keller Williams Market Center owners in Illinois and Indiana, and partial owners of a 3rd Market Center in Southern California, submitted their own claim versus KW, Keller and other leading brokerage executives, declaring that they dealt with consistent pressure from Keller executives and local directors to change their organization operations, regardless of criteria established in their franchise contract, and comply with Keller’s strategies to lower Market Center caps in 2020.
In late August 2023, Davis submitted a racketeering claim versus Keller Williams and Keller, declaring that the offenders pumped up essential success metrics consisting of business sales and revenues to encourage people to buy Keller Williams Regions and Market Centers.
Keller Williams decreased to talk about the termination of Dow’s fit.