Blue Cross Owes $12.7 Million for Denied Vaccine Exemption

A former employee of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan was awarded nearly $12.7 million by a federal jury Friday after she was fired for refusing to get a Covid-19 vaccine due to her Catholic faith.

Lisa Domski convinced the Detroit jury that Blue Cross unlawfully religiously discriminated against her both by denying her vaccine exemption request and then firing her. The jury—which deliberated for five and a half hours, according to her attorney—awarded $10 million in punitive damages, along with $315,000 in back pay, nearly $1.4 million in lost wages, and $1 million in non-economic damages, according to the ...