DETROIT (WWJ/AP) A Michigan jury awarded a local woman a nearly $13 million settlement in a religious discrimination lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) after the company fired her for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
According to official court documents; Lisa Domski worked for the company as an IT specialist from 2008 to 2022. Her attorneys said the health insurer employed her for a total of 38 years. In early November of 2021, BCBSM announced every employee would get the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of their employment.
“(Domski) is a devout Catholic who opposed the vaccine because of its use of fetal cells taken from an aborted fetus in developing the vaccine,” stated a press release from her representing attorneys, Jon Marko of Marko Law in Detroit and Noah Hurtwitz of Hurwitz Law in Ann Arbor.
She filed a religious exemption and submitted a statement in writing explaining her faith and provided her employer with the name and contact information for her priest, her lawyers said.