Comments on: “Court: Employer must pay for weight-loss surgery” http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/court-employer-must-pay-for-weight-loss-surgery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=court-employer-must-pay-for-weight-loss-surgery Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 17:39:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: c goranson http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/court-employer-must-pay-for-weight-loss-surgery/comment-page-1/#comment-71773 c goranson 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. 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.

]]> By: MF http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/court-employer-must-pay-for-weight-loss-surgery/comment-page-1/#comment-71700 MF 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? 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?

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