February 01, 2024
A pending U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission challenge to Yale New Haven Hospital's policy requiring doctors over 70 to submit to medical testing to retain their staff privileges demonstrates the danger of administering age-based tests in the workplace, a practice discrimination lawyers on both sides of the bar say is fraught with legal risk.
June 12, 2023
Several health care organizations backed Yale New Haven Hospital Monday in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit challenging the hospital's policy of medically evaluating older doctors, saying the EEOC's stance could impede efforts to keep patients safe.
April 06, 2023
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a Connecticut federal court to reject an amicus brief backing Yale New Haven Hospital in the agency's suit alleging the hospital's medical evaluation tests for doctors over 70 violate age bias laws, arguing the filing doesn't provide any useful information.
March 27, 2023
Yale New Haven Hospital urged a Connecticut federal judge to toss the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's suit claiming its medical evaluation tests for doctors over 70 violate age bias laws, arguing the exams protect patients and reduce mistakes.
March 04, 2022
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has told a federal judge that Yale New Haven Hospital exposed a "fatal" weakness in its argument by owning up to not having any proof that its practice of requiring older doctors to submit to certain exams was necessary to help patients.
November 16, 2021
A Connecticut federal judge rejected the EEOC's request to bar medical practitioners at the center of its age discrimination suit against Yale New Haven Hospital from having to answer deposition questions about potential cognitive conditions, finding these queries were appropriate discovery.
September 20, 2021
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reiterated its stance that Yale New Haven Hospital shouldn't be allowed to ask certain doctors in an age discrimination suit about their cognitive health, saying the information isn't relevant to the case as the hospital contends.
August 17, 2021
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a Connecticut federal judge to block Yale New Haven Hospital from asking older doctors at the center of an age bias suit about their cognitive health during upcoming depositions, saying the proposed questions are "illegal" and "invasive."
June 29, 2021
A Connecticut federal judge ruled Tuesday that Yale New Haven Hospital Inc. must cough up the psychological tests it allegedly forced on older medical practitioners, saying the documents weren't protected by a privilege that shields medical professionals' views of their peers from disclosure.
June 02, 2021
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has urged a Connecticut federal judge to order Yale New Haven Hospital to cough up psychological exams it's accused of forcing on older medical practitioners, saying the tests were central to its age bias case.