TOVAR v. ESSENTIA HEALTH

No. 16-3186.

857 F.3d 771 (2017)

Brittany R. TOVAR, Plaintiff-Appellant v. ESSENTIA HEALTH; Innovis Health, LLC, doing business as Essentia Health West; HealthPartners, Inc.; HealthPartners Administrators, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund; Whitman Walker Health; World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Amici on Behalf of Appellant(s).

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: May 24, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant was Jill Renee Gaulding , of Saint Paul, MN. The following attorneys also appeared on the appellant brief; Lisa C. Stratton , of Saint Paul, MN., Christy L. Hall , of Saint Paul, MN.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellees HealthPartners, Inc. and HealthPartners Administrators, Inc. was David M. Wilk , of Saint Paul, MN. The following attorney also appeared on the appellee brief of HealthPartners, Inc. and HealthPartners Administrators, Inc.; Stephanie Chandler , of Saint Paul, MN.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellees Essentia Health and Innovis Health, LLC, doing business as Essentia Health West was Lisa Kay Edison-Smith , of Fargo, ND. The following attorney also appeared on the appellee brief of Essentia Health and Innovis Health, LLC, doing business as Essentia Health West; Vanessa L. Anderson , of Fargo, ND.

The following attorneys appeared on the amicus brief; Jean Marie Boler , of Minneapolis, MN., Ezra Young , of New York, NY., Anna Veit-Carter , of Minneapolis, MN.

Before BENTON, BEAM, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.


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...

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