Uddoh v. United Healthcare

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER

Brian M. Cogan, U.S.D.J.

Plaintiffs pro se are a same sex, male couple who applied for insurance benefits through their insurance plan in connection with their desire to parent a child using in vitro fertilization (“IVF”) and with the help of a third-party surrogate. After initially issuing a conditional preapproval of coverage for female harvesting and implantation procedures as to one of the insureds, the policy administrator reversed its position and denied coverage on the ground that it had mistakenly assumed that plaintiff Plamen Koev was a woman, and since…