Healthcare/Hospital Law
Dec. 28, 2007
Ruling Lets Couple Go to Trial Over Canceled Coverage
LOS ANGELES - While filling out an application for medical coverage, Cindy Hailey got the weight of her husband, Steven Hailey, wrong and skipped parts of his medical history. She says it was an honest mistake. But after a 2001 car accident sent him to the hospital in critical condition, those errors became glaring enough to Blue Shield that it revoked the couple's health insurance coverage and slapped them with a $104,000 bill.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - While filling out an application for medical coverage, Cindy Hailey got the weight of her husband, Steven Hailey, wrong and skipped parts of his medical history. She says it was an honest mistake.
But after a 2001 car accident sent him to the hospital in critical condition, those errors became glaring enough to Blue Shield th...
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