A nonprofit insurance company may pay $250,000 to settle a sexual-harassment claim filed against the executive director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

The Housing Authority Risk Retention Group “accepted our settlement demands” Aug. 20, John M. Elliott, the lawyer for Elizabeth Helms, the accuser, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The claim arose when Helms, 29, an interior designer and planner for the housing authority, accused the executive director, Carl R. Greene, 53,of unwanted sexual advances in April, according to the report. She filed complaints with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

She wrote in a four-page letter to Gov. Ed Rendell and others, dated April 21, of alleged “serial predatory sexual misconduct” by Greene and said he groped her at the Prime Rib restaurant after “insisting” he meet with her at that location, according to the report.

The housing authority’s board chairman, former Mayor John F. Street, said he questioned the settlement as the investigation into it continues, the newspaper said.

Elliott told the newspaper that no agreement has been signed.