Legal Opinion
Brittany Tovar v. Essentia Health
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 24, 2017No. 16-3186PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Brittany Tovar was employed by defendant Essentia Health or defendant Innovis Health, LLC, dba Essentia Health West (collectively, Essentia) from 2010 to 2016. One of the benefits of Tovar’s employment was enrollment in an employer provided health insurance plan which also covered her teenage son. In 2014 Tovar’s son was diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Tovar sought coverage for medications and surgery for her son, but her requests for coverage were denied on the basis of a categorical exclusion in the insurance plan for “[s]ervices and/or surgery for gender…
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