CVS, Catholic Nurse Head to Jury Trial Over Contraceptive Policy

A jury must decide whether CVS Health Corp. and two subsidiaries failed to accommodate and unlawfully fired a Roman Catholic nurse practitioner who refused to dispense hormonal contraceptives, a Florida federal judge ruled.

Issues for trial include whether exempting the employee from a new patient-care initiative, which required nurse practitioners to provide pregnancy prevention services, would’ve imposed an undue hardship by interfering with the companies’ mission of becoming a primary care-enabled destination and expanding women’s health care, the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida said. Fact questions exist on whether the risk of reputational damage to the ...