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Health Care & Hospital Law

Mar. 11, 2010

Report: Few Health Policyholders Aided by Regulators

A new government report finds that state insurance watchdogs' barks were worse than their bites when it came to forcing companies to give back health coverage they stripped from thousands of sick Californians.

By Evan George

Daily Journal Staff Writer

It turns out state insurance watchdogs' barks were worse than their bites when it came to forcing companies to give back health coverage they stripped from thousands of sick Californians.

That was the finding by a new government report on California's handling of wrongful insurance rescissions, in which insurers revoked policyholders' health coverage after they had filed co...

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