Woman Who Refused the Jab Awarded Millions in Damages by Court

[ChemEngrMBA]

Sanctimonious know-it-alls fired thousands of employees for not taking The Jab.
Now they're paying for their invasions of personal medical history, in violation of the HIPAA Act.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/michigan-jury-awards-millions-to-a-woman-fired-after-refusing-to-get-a-covid-19-vaccine/ar-AA1tLkp0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=dc8bedd7f2fa4c55bdb3adf68a243561&ei=20

DETROIT (AP) — A jury awarded more than $12 million Friday to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination.

Much of the award — $10 million — is for punitive damages against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, according to the verdict form.

Lisa Domski, who worked at Blue Cross for more than 30 years, said she was a victim of religious discrimination. The company in 2021 did not grant an exemption from its vaccine policy, despite her insistence that it clashed with her Catholic beliefs.

[mountaineer]

Woman Fired For Refusing Covid Vaccine Wins Record $12 Million
Published Nov 09, 2024 at 2:08 PM EST; Updated Nov 10, 2024 at 10:42 AM EST
By Adeola Adeosun
NEWSWEEK

A federal jury in Detroit awarded more than $12 million Friday to a former Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) employee who was terminated after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination, citing religious discrimination.

According to the verdict form, Lisa Domski, who worked at the insurance company for more than 30 years as an IT specialist, received $10 million in punitive damages against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The jury also awarded her approximately $1.7 million in lost wages and $1 million in noneconomic damages.

Newsweek contacted Blue Cross Blue Shield via email on Saturday for comment.

Domski claimed she was a victim of religious discrimination after the company denied her request for an exemption from its 2021 vaccine policy. She maintained that the requirement conflicted with her Catholic beliefs.  ...

[Bigun]

Woman Fired For Refusing Covid Vaccine Wins Record $12 Million
Published Nov 09, 2024 at 2:08 PM EST; Updated Nov 10, 2024 at 10:42 AM EST
By Adeola Adeosun
NEWSWEEK

A federal jury in Detroit awarded more than $12 million Friday to a former Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) employee who was terminated after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination, citing religious discrimination.

According to the verdict form, Lisa Domski, who worked at the insurance company for more than 30 years as an IT specialist, received $10 million in punitive damages against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The jury also awarded her approximately $1.7 million in lost wages and $1 million in noneconomic damages.

Newsweek contacted Blue Cross Blue Shield via email on Saturday for comment.

Domski claimed she was a victim of religious discrimination after the company denied her request for an exemption from its 2021 vaccine policy. She maintained that the requirement conflicted with her Catholic beliefs.  ...

I wish my daughter was still around to see this!

[PeteS in CA]

1. XYZ Corporation requiring Covid vaccination was in no way a HIPAA violation. Do I have to explain this?

2. XYZ Corporation requiring Covid vaccination was stupid, which I pointed out back in 2021 when vaccine-mandates became a thing.

[GtHawk]

1. XYZ Corporation requiring Covid vaccination was in no way a HIPAA violation. Do I have to explain this?

2. XYZ Corporation requiring Covid vaccination was stupid, which I pointed out back in 2021 when vaccine-mandates became a thing.

The only way I could se it being a HIPAA violation is if someone accessed her medical records without permission and used the information to fire her. If she herself stated that she had not and would not take the vaccine, and her reasoning there could not be a violation, as you stated.

Any way HIPAA is violated everyday in every doctors office when everyone in the waiting room often hear very personal information from those talking to the receptionist.

[MeganC]

1. XYZ Corporation requiring Covid vaccination was in no way a HIPAA violation. Do I have to explain this?

Blue Cross/Blue Shield is an HIPAA covered entity and even though someone is a BCBS employee BCBS management is prohibited from using Personal Healthcare Information (PHI) for business or employment reasons.

Your employer might not be HIPAA covered but you still have Federal civil rights protections for your PHI and your PHI cannot be used for business or employment reasons.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Where in Catholic Cannon Law does it say anything about vaccinations?  Even so, she could have gone to Confession and done Penance for any transgressions.

[Smokin Joe]

Where in Catholic Cannon Law does it say anything about vaccinations?  Even so, she could have gone to Confession and done Penance for any transgressions.

Fetal cell lines were used in the manufacture of the J&J shots, and used to test Pfizer's and Moderna's shots. That's aborted baby tissue. Not hard to find a problem with that. The Vatican (rightfully) still does not approve abortion.

My personal take on that is that I will trust my Health to Almighty God before I will extend it at the cost of the life of any innocent baby or anything which uses that death to produce some alleged benefit to me.

[DefiantMassRINO]

So, the issue was not "vaccinations", but the ingredients and processes used to create or produce them.  Okay.

Fetal cell lines were used in the manufacture of the J&J shots, and used to test Pfizer's and Moderna's shots. That's aborted baby tissue. Not hard to find a problem with that. The Vatican (rightfully) still does not approve abortion.

My personal take on that is that I will trust my Health to Almighty God before I will extend it at the cost of the life of any innocent baby or anything which uses that death to produce some alleged benefit to me.

[PeteS in CA]

Healthcare workers and health insurance workers who have access to patient information are bound by HIPAA wrt that information. If XYZ Corporation makes computers or appliances or food storage containers or computer software or etc., they are not bound by HIPAA, and mandating Covid vaccination, while stupid, was not a HIPAA violation.

[MeganC]

Healthcare workers and health insurance workers who have access to patient information are bound by HIPAA wrt that information. If XYZ Corporation makes computers or appliances or food storage containers or computer software or etc., they are not bound by HIPAA, and mandating Covid vaccination, while stupid, was not a HIPAA violation.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield is absolutely an HIPAA covered entity. Period.

[PeteS in CA]

Fetal cell lines were used in the manufacture of the J&J shots, and to test Pfizer's and Moderna's shots. ...

The best info I've seen is that this fetal cell line is descended through who knows how many thousands or millions of generations from a fetus that died in the 1970s. Whether it was aborted or was a miscarriage is not clear, because the doctor who handled it did not keep/retain records and did/does not remember. Cells from that line are ubiquitous in testing medications, so just about any medication one might use has at least been tested using that cell line (probably including older meds that went through later safety tests).

[PeteS in CA]

Blue Cross/Blue Shield is absolutely an HIPAA covered entity. Period.

I denied that? Where?

[DefiantMassRINO]

Catholic Dogma does not offer much moral wiggle room in regards to the sanctity of life ... every sperm is sacred.

The best info I've seen is that this fetal cell line is descended through who knows how many thousands or millions of generations from a fetus that died in the 1970s. Whether it was aborted or was a miscarriage is not clear, because the doctor who handled it did not keep/retain records and did/does not remember. Cells from that line are ubiquitous in testing medications, so just about any medication one might use has at least been tested using that cell line (probably including older meds that went through later safety tests).

[mountaineer]

Catholic Dogma does not offer much moral wiggle room in regards to the sanctity of life ... every sperm is sacred.

No, the human life created when that sperm fertilized an egg is sacred.

[MeganC]

I denied that? Where?

Your comments about the fictional "XYZ Corporation" are tangential to the topic which is about Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

You're also missing the mark that private companies can get away with this crap. They can't and they aren't.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/column-why-workers-fired-refusing-covid-vaccines-are-starting-win-court-2024-11-01/

In particular is the application of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by the courts. No employer is exempt from this law.

Even New York City has had to settle up with the people they fired for not complying with the Death Shot Mandates. And that's a government entity that is typically immune to such claims.

No, the tide has already turned on Death Shot Mandates and retaliation against those people who refused the shot. The question now is how big will the settlements be, not whether or not the employers are immune. Because they are not.

[PeteS in CA]

Your comments about the fictional "XYZ Corporation" are tangential to the topic 1. which is about Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

You're also missing the mark that private companies can get away with this crap. 2. They can't and they aren't.
...

1. My comment was a direct response to this sentence from the OP, not at all "tangential":

Now they're paying for their invasions of personal medical history, in violation of the HIPAA Act.

2. What part of my comment, made at least twice, that Covid vaccine mandates were/are stupid was " missing the mark". That the company lost the lawsuit speaks for itself. Why was it necessary to repeat the fact that it lost and therefore didn't "get away with this crap". I may be occasionally verbose, but I saw no point in being, thereby, repetitive and redundant.

3. "Death Shot"? Seriously? As my signature, with which you may be less than pleased, points out, if The Vaccine is as deadly as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim - >230 million Americans received whichever of the 4 vaccines they chose - where are the hundreds of thousands or millions of "extra" dead bodies? According to anti-Covid-vaxxers' claims, millions of Americans now living should have died.

[Hoodat]

Not clear on the judgment here, but I would argue that getting jabbed with an experimental RNA activator (i.e. not a vaccine) was not a condition of employment at the time of hire.  Nor was said MRNA activator certified as "safe and effective" by the FDA.  Thus, their attempt to change the rules regarding condition of employment were not based on any medically established risk analysis, but instead were based on a purely arbitrary decision, not only without medical foundation, but also without any reasonable basis whatsoever.  Punitive damages should have been ten times higher than what was awarded here.

[Smokin Joe]

@PeteS in CA

3. "Death Shot"? Seriously? As my signature, with which you may be less than pleased, points out, if The Vaccine is as deadly as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim - >230 million Americans received whichever of the 4 vaccines they chose - where are the hundreds of thousands or millions of "extra" dead bodies? According to anti-Covid-vaxxers' claims, millions of Americans now living should have died.

As I have posted, and posted links to the data, not all lots of the injections were created equal. Some lots had over 5,000 VAERS reports, others, none. It was a cartwheeling crapshoot which lot you got, although the worst ones were in red states; heavily Democrat areas tended to get the 'safer' lots. Your statement that millions should have died is hyperbole, I believe. However if you or a loved one is the unlucky recipient of a dose that causes an adverse reaction, how many others suffer from the shot is moot.

As I recall, the Swine Flu vaccines (Ford Administration) were pulled and the program shut down because of an unacceptably high adverse reaction rate.

No such was allowed to be discussed in the media about the COVID injections (the media were stumping for 6 ft. distancing and masks and pimping panic). After all, if the disease had been as deadly as they claimed, billions would have died.

Censorship of anyone who bucked the narrative was extreme; anything which did not fit the narrative was censored.

For that reason, the number of adverse reactions or deaths/injuries from those reactions may never be known. The only indicator is the data from insurance actuaries claiming an increase in 'excess deaths' for the age groups they monitor in order to be able to keep making a profit on life insurance, and while not definitive, it tends to indicate an increase in deaths in younger age groups who got the shots, not just old folks with multiple comorbidities which have been attributed to COVID. 

[MeganC]

1. My comment was a direct response to this sentence from the OP, not at all "tangential":

2. What part of my comment, made at least twice, that Covid vaccine mandates were/are stupid was " missing the mark". That the company lost the lawsuit speaks for itself. Why was it necessary to repeat the fact that it lost and therefore didn't "get away with this crap". I may be occasionally verbose, but I saw no point in being, thereby, repetitive and redundant.

3. "Death Shot"? Seriously? As my signature, with which you may be less than pleased, points out, if The Vaccine is as deadly as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim - >230 million Americans received whichever of the 4 vaccines they chose - where are the hundreds of thousands or millions of "extra" dead bodies? According to anti-Covid-vaxxers' claims, millions of Americans now living should have died.

Your XYZ company comment was both tangential and wrong.

"Excess deaths" are a thing whether you believe it or not.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Your XYZ company comment was both tangential and wrong.

"Excess deaths" are a thing whether you believe it or not.

He is Leftist for Life.  Facts mean nothing to such Leftists.  They believe only what the media have repeated to them for thirty years of hatefulness and bias.  Covid didn't kill everyone who was infected by it regardless of the number of jabs they received or if they received none.
I have presented data showing that 86% of new covid hospital cases had jab + booster.  Whoosh.  Right over his head, ignored, refuted, as opposing facts always are are by Leftists.

[MeganC]

He is Leftist for Life.  Facts mean nothing to such Leftists.  They believe only what the media have repeated to them for thirty years of hatefulness and bias.  Covid didn't kill everyone who was infected by it regardless of the number of jabs they received or if they received none.
I have presented data showing that 86% of new covid hospital cases had jab + booster.  Whoosh.  Right over his head, ignored, refuted, as opposing facts always are are by Leftists.

I agree about leftists. They were Covid deniers at the outset because Trump said it was from China. Then they went full retard and pushed lockdowns, masks, and etc.

Then the Death Shot Suicide Cult came along.

Now the link between the Death Shot and excess death is clear and they're in denial yet again.

Makes me wonder what snake oil they'll push next.

[Bigun]

I agree about leftists. They were Covid deniers at the outset because Trump said it was from China. Then they went full retard and pushed lockdowns, masks, and etc.

Then the Death Shot Suicide Cult came along.

Now the link between the Death Shot and excess death is clear and they're in denial yet again.

Makes me wonder what snake oil they'll push next.

It just makes me wonder who they work for. I tend not to over think things.

[Kamaji]

@PeteS in CA is not a leftist, and those posting that libel ought to know better. 

[PeteS in CA]

@PeteS in CA is not a leftist, and those posting that libel ought to know better.

I don't toe some line in his definition of a conservative, therefore I am a "leftist". Another such bogey-label used as a reasoning surrogate is "neocon".