Merchants' Insurance v. Simmons

How courts have described this case

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• finding that compliance with FEHA § 12945, which provides 4-months of pregnancy leave, did not insulate an employer from liability under other portions of FEHA
• overlapping statutes governing pregnancy-related disability leave because the Pregnancy Disability Leave Law’s “remedies augment, rather than supplant, those set forth elsewhere in the FEHA”
• collecting cases 8 and noting that “[a] finite leave of greater than four months may be a reasonable 9 accommodation for a known disability under the FEHA”
• “[A] disabled employee is entitled to a reasonable 2 accommodation – which may include leave of no statutorily fixed duration – provided that such 3 accommodation does not impose an undue hardship on the employer.”
• “[A] disabled employee is entitled to a reasonable 2 accommodation – which may include leave of no statutorily fixed duration – provided that such 3 accommodation does not impose an undue hardship on the employer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).