A mortgage loan originator who previously worked for Zillow Home Loans has filed a class action lawsuit against the portal giant’s mortgage lending arm, alleging that it failed to adequately pay him and other employees for time worked in an effort to cut costs and gain a leg up on competitors.
Andrew Josephson | Credit: LinkedIn
The disgruntled former employee and lead plaintiff in the case is Andrew Josephson, who worked for Zillow Home Loans from 2023 to 2025, according to his LinkedIn profile. Josephson is now a product specialist at Federal First Lending and has worked in the past at Escrow.com and Network Capital.
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Representatives for Zillow said they were unable to comment on pending litigation. Lawyers for Josephson did not immediately respond to Inman’s request for comment.
The complaint filed on Wednesday in Orange County, California, alleges that Zillow Home Loans failed to pay minimum wages and overtime, provide meal and other breaks, reimburse business expenses, provide accurate itemized wage statements, pay all wages within a timely period of Josephson’s separation from the company, and violated business and professional codes.
The suit further alleges that Zillow Home Loans intentionally created “an artificially lower cost of doing business in order to undercut their competitors and establish and/or gain a greater foothold in the marketplace.”
The plaintiffs are requesting a jury trial and damages to recover unpaid wages, non-reimbursed business expenses, benefits and attorneys’ fees and expenses. California citizens currently or previously employed by Zillow Home Loans, any time between June 25, 2021, and the date of class certification, who have similar grievances as those outlined by the lawsuit, may be included in the class of plaintiffs.
This is not the first time that Zillow or one of its entities has been on the receiving end of a lawsuit regarding wages. In 2019, business consultant Nicole Correa filed a class action suit against Zillow Group, alleging labor code violations, including a failure to pay overtime wages, and Zillow settled that suit in 2021 for a little over $342,000. In 2014, former inside sales consultant Ian Freeman also sued Zillow Group in a class action suit that alleged the company violated wage laws. Zillow settled the case in 2016 for $6 million.
Read Josephson’s full complaint here.
