August 15, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit agreed Thursday to a full-court rehearing of an appeal from Georgia county officials looking to overturn a deputy's win in her suit alleging a health plan coverage exclusion for gender-affirming surgery violated federal anti-discrimination law.
March 01, 2023
A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday denied a county's last-minute bid to freeze a court order requiring it cover a deputy's gender transition surgery and called the county's lawyers "irresponsible" for likening the potential cost to that of a different surgical procedure.
January 02, 2023
A possible circuit split is among the key things to watch in 2023 as more district courts take contrary positions on whether the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County extends to the Affordable Care Act's nondiscrimination protections to transgender health care coverage. Here, Law360 looks at seven cases dealing with nondiscrimination provisions under the ACA and transgender health care coverage that benefits attorneys should keep their eyes on.
September 28, 2022
A federal jury awarded a deputy sheriff $60,000 in emotional damages in her suit alleging the Georgia county she worked for and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield unlawfully denied her health care coverage for gender transition surgery.
September 26, 2022
A deputy sheriff who convinced a Georgia federal judge to rule that a county's refusal to cover gender transition surgery was illegal told the court that Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield must cover the expenses she has already incurred for her gender-affirming treatment.
August 19, 2022
A Georgia federal judge declined a county sheriff's request for an interlocutory review of a June ruling allowing parts of a transgender sheriff's deputy's bias claims that the county's health insurance illegally excludes gender-affirming health care to move forward, saying there were no issues with the ruling.
June 03, 2022
A health plan's exclusion of gender-conforming surgery violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act because it applies only to transgender employees, a Georgia federal judge ruled, allowing a transgender sheriff's deputy to move forward with most of her bias claims.
February 24, 2022
A transgender sheriff's deputy in Georgia can probably move forward to trial in a discrimination suit alleging her health plan unlawfully refused to cover gender-affirming surgery, a federal judge said Thursday, noting that there were disputed facts in the case that a jury needed to resolve.
November 02, 2020
A federal judge has narrowed a transgender deputy sheriff's legal challenge to her health plan's refusal to cover transition-related surgery, but said a Georgia county and its sheriff's office have to face her disability and gender discrimination claims.
January 15, 2020
A Houston County, Georgia, deputy sheriff is arguing her suit claiming she was wrongly denied coverage for gender reassignment services should stay in court, claiming the county jumped the gun by seeking to have her case tossed.