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Appeals Court Hands Victory to Transgender Employee Seeking Health Benefits: Key Takeaways and 3 Steps Employers Can Take Now

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A federal appeals court recently held that an employer’s health insurance plan wrongly excluded coverage for gender-affirming care in violation of federal civil rights law – offering a warning to employers across the country...more

Laner Muchin, Ltd.

Eleventh Circuit Finds Gender-Affirming Surgery Exclusion in Governmental Employer’s Health Plan Violated Title VII

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held that a governmental employer’s health plan violated Title VII by applying an exclusion for services and supplies associated with gender reassignment surgery. The Court relied on the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v....more

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The LHD/ERISA Advisor – June 2021: Health Plan May Not Exclude Specific Autism Treatments

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The extent to which a health plan may exclude coverage for mental health treatment modalities has become an active area in ERISA litigation. In Doe v. United Behavioral Health, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43146 (N.D. Cal. March 5,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Check Your Neutral Policies: The EEOC Joins the ACLU’s Challenge to Dignity Health’s Exclusion of All Care Related to Sex...

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The ACLU filed a complaint against Dignity Health, claiming that the total exclusion of care related to “sex transformation surgery” in Dignity’s employee health insurance plan is unlawful sex discrimination. Now the EEOC...more

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