Wells Fargo & Co. was negotiating a settlement as recently as last month with a former executive in Colorado who claimed she was unlawfully fired in retaliation for refusing to accept the bank’s widespread practice of opening accounts without customer consent.

Lawyers for the bank notified the U.S. Labor Department in January that settlement talks with Laura Worzella, a former senior vice president in charge of Wells Fargo’s operations in the Denver area, were ongoing. Worzella was fired in June 2017.

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