$100 per day per plan participant fines apply to group health plans that refuse to provide free coverage for the so-called “morning after pill” and similar contraceptives as of Jan. 1, 2013. For Conestoga Wood Specialties in Lancaster County resources indicate these fines total about $95,000 a day. The company’s owners, who are Mennonites, objected to the law’s requirement that they provide health insurance covering birth-control products such as Plan B, the “morning after” pill. On January 11th, they were denied a request for a temporary injunction.
