NYC Agrees Benefits Denial Unfair in LGBTQ+ Fertility Case (1)

A former New York City attorney and his husband were unfairly denied IVF benefits through its fertility subcontractor, the city said during a phone conference on the couple’s sex discrimination suit.

Corey Briskin and his husband Nicholas Maggipinto were denied IVF coverage because they were unable to meet the definition of “infertility” under the city’s guidelines, which requires 12 months of intercourse or multiple rounds of intrauterine insemination before approval. But the couple’s sexual orientation should have prompted the city’s fertility benefit manager, WinFertility, to set aside that test under NYC guidance, city attorney Shemori Corinthian said Thursday.

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