Insurance
Feb. 13, 2008
New Ruling Complicates Health Insurance Policy Rescissions
A recent ruling leaves the legality of health insurance policy recissions uncertain.
Rex Heeseman
JAMS
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Los Angeles , CA 90013-1055
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Email: rheeseman@jamsdar.com
Stanford Univ Law School
Rex Heeseman retired from the Los Angeles Count Superior Court bench in 2014. He is at JAMS, Los Angeles. Besides speaking at various MCLE programs, he co-authors The Rutter Group's practice guide on "Insurance Litigation." From 2002 to 2015, he was an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School.
By Rex Heeseman
This article appears on Page 6.
According to a recent Los Angeles Times article, a "continuing scrutiny" focuses on "policy cancellations - often after patients run up major bills. The insurers defend such cancellations, known as rescissions, as a way to weed out policyholders who made misstatements about medical history on their initial applications." Other media reports have suggested some insure...
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