Employment Policies, Hiring & Firing, Medical Examinations

Just Don’t Ask: 7th Circuit Addresses Employment Medical Inquiries Under ADA

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/2/2025

In early April 2025, the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recognized that employers could be held liable for monetary damages and other relief for violating the medical inquiry and examination limitations of the...more

Fourth Circuit Says Dishonesty on Pre-Employment Medical Questionnaire Justified Termination

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 3/7/2025

The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits employers from asking most applicants questions about their medical history before a conditional offer of employment is made....more

Request For Medical Examination Was Permissible Under ADA After Positive Drug Test Result

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/28/2020

A federal court in Indiana dismissed an employee’s claim that his employer did not have the right to request a medical examination after he tested positive for drugs and subsequently admitted that he was taking numerous...more

EEOC Sues Yale New Haven Hospital for Age and Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 2/12/2020

Hospital Unlawfully Subjected Only Physicians Over 70 to Neuropsychological and Eye Exams, Federal Agency Charges - NEW HAVEN - Yale New Haven Hospital, the teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, violated...more

Court Upholds Termination Of Employee Who Claimed Failed Drug Test Was Due to Over-the-Counter Medications

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/5/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed summary judgment in favor of an employer that terminated an employee after he tested positive for methamphetamines, even though he claimed that his drug...more

Alcoholism and the ADA: The DOs and DON’Ts of Alcohol Testing in the Workplace

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/17/2015

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended (ADA) considers alcoholism to be a “disability.” Individuals who suffer from alcoholism are entitled to the protections of the ADA just as those with significant mental...more

EEOC Wins Summary Judgment in American Tool & Mold Disability Case

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 4/22/2014

Court Rules Plastic Mold Maker Unlawfully Used Results of Post-Offer Medical Exam, Falsely Regarding New Hire With Old Back Injury as Disabled - TAMPA, Fla. - In an order issued late Wednesday afternoon, a federal...more

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