Risk Managers Face Birth Control Exposures

This month, Washington will join more than a dozen other states in requiring health insurers to provide coverage for most forms of birth control.

Although many states have no such requirement, employers may find that failing to provide contraceptive coverage in their healthcare plans could subject them to discrimination exposures under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.

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