Five states — Idaho, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont and Wyoming — do not bar insurers from considering domestic violence a declinable pre-existing condition, said Gretchen Borchelt, the vice president for reproductive rights and health...
Janel George, director of federal reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center, said that before Obamacare took effect, insurers in most states could label pregnancy, both healthy and complicated, as a “preexisting...
“It is entirely possible that victims have the tools they need in the law,” said Brodsky, who’s now a fellow at the National Women’s Law Center. “But a new tort that names ‘nonconsensual condom removal’...
The Kaiser Family Foundation researchers who have analyzed insurance underwriting data told me that while they never saw sexual assault listed as a factor, they wouldn’t be surprised if underwriters considered that in their price...
“We know that when employers see some past salary, they’re likely to take that into account” in setting the employee’s starting pay, says Emily Martin, general counsel for the National Women’s Law Center. As a...
