Panel: No Professional Liability Coverage Owed For Gender Discrimination Claim

(October 15, 2024, 12:47 PM EDT) -- ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Oct. 14 affirmed a lower court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of a medical professional liability insurer in a plastic surgeon insured’s breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit seeking coverage for a transgender woman’s claims that he discriminated against her based on her sexual orientation when he refused to perform breast augmentation surgery, finding that no coverage was triggered because it is clear that the underlying claims were based on an alleged gender-identity discrimination and not on a medical incident....