https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/09/court-employer-must-pay-for-weight-loss-surgery/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:33:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/09/court-employer-must-pay-for-weight-loss-surgery/comment-page-1/#comment-71773 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:33:11 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=13655#comment-71773 I’ll leave the conclusion jumping to those with political axes to grind. Obviously, this post doesn’t supply the background information, etc. behind the case. I can imagine a fact pattern where this all makes sense. I’m wondering how close reality my assessment is.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/09/court-employer-must-pay-for-weight-loss-surgery/comment-page-1/#comment-71700 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:09:00 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=13655#comment-71700 The employer has to pay for the weight-loss surgery. That might make employers want to avoid hiring majorly obese employees. But wait – that would result in a lawsuit due to weight discrimination. I suppose that even if an employee were to be rail-thin when hired, and then started massively overeating, and then got injured as a result of being massively obese, the employer would still have to pay for the weight-loss surgery?

]]>