Company May Have Demoted Employee With Crohn’s Disease Over Medical Costs

A former employee at a radiologic imaging center in Tennessee raised triable questions regarding whether her job was cut from full- to part-time to spare the company medical expenses related to her Crohn’s disease, a federal district court ruled April 18 (Quillen v. Touchstone Med. Imaging LLC, 2014 BL 109002, M.D. Tenn., 3:12-cv-01194, 4/18/14).

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee said a jury could find that Touchstone Medical Imaging LLC’s explanation that Maggi Quillen’s position didn’t require a full-time worker was a pretext for disability bias under the Americans with Disabilities Act and ...