Winning. A former Blue Cross Blue Shield employee who refused the company’s vaccine mandate was awarded nearly $700,000 in back pay and damages

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Winning. A former Blue Cross Blue Shield employee who refused the company’s vaccine mandate was awarded nearly $700,000 in back pay and damages.

The federal jury found the firing of the Blue Cross employee, Tanja Benton, who cited religious beliefs against the vaccine mandate, to be an unjustifiable decision.

Blue Cross Blue Shield failed to “prove by a preponderance of the evidence either that it had offered a reasonable accommodation to Plaintiff or that it could not reasonably accommodate the Plaintiff’s religious beliefs without undue hardship,” the court stated.

Tanja Benton was a bio statistical research scientist at BCBS for 17+ yrs before they fired her for refusing the vaccine.