May 16, 2023
Overlapping federal and state laws leave corporate wellness programs exposed to legal challenges, but many employers are still interested because of the potential savings they offer on health care costs. Here, Law360 takes a look at some of the key issues companies are grappling with as they decide whether enticing workers to get healthy is worth it.
March 04, 2022
Yale University workers who accused the school of unlawfully using financial penalties to coerce them into a wellness program asked a Connecticut federal court on Friday to sign off on a $1.29 million deal ending the disability and genetic information bias suit.
September 24, 2021
Yale University agreed to settle a disability and genetic information bias suit alleging it unlawfully used financial penalties to coerce workers into a wellness program, with a Connecticut federal judge giving both parties two months to finalize the deal.
June 08, 2020
Yale University workers urged a Connecticut federal judge to let them move forward with a disability and genetic information bias suit accusing the university of using penalties to coerce them into a wellness program, arguing the program wasn't truly optional.
April 30, 2020
Yale workers' lawsuit claiming the university maintains an unlawful policy of fining those who refuse to participate in a workplace wellness program threatens to upend droves of similar wellness initiatives, the school said in a bid to have the case thrown out.
March 02, 2020
Yale University's policy to slap $1,300 fines on workers who refuse to hand over medical and genetic information violates federal disability and genetic information laws, those workers told a Connecticut federal judge Monday in an attempt to score an early win in their suit.
July 16, 2019
A trio of Yale University workers sued the school in Connecticut federal court Tuesday over its employee wellness program's $1,300 per year fine for nonparticipants, saying the penalty places the program in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.