Bright Horizons Worker With Heart Defect Gets Bias Suit Revived

A former Bright Horizons Children’s Centers LLC teacher with genetic heart deformities that increase her health risks from bacterial infections could convince a jury she was fired because she was perceived to be disabled, an Ohio state appeals court ruled.

Haley Anderson missed the mark in arguing her twin heart defects constitute an actual disability under state job discrimination law, the Ohio Court of Appeals said Tuesday. Major bodily functions aren’t listed as a major life activity under the disability bias provisions of the Ohio Civil Rights Act, so Anderson can’t prove an actual disability claim by showing her condition ...