An employee comes forward with embarrassing workplace allegations fraught with legal risks. For company bosses, it presents a thorny dilemma: Fight or pay? It is a situation JPMorgan Chase found itself in weeks before a former banker filed a lawsuit filled with sensational accusations. It offered $1 million to settle his claims that a female colleague had sexually harassed and assaulted him and that co-workers had subjected him to discrimination, The Wall Street Journal reported. The bank has said it investigated the claims and doesn’t believe they have merit. Though such deals rarely come to light, paying employees to make potential scandals…

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