{"id":6102,"date":"2009-09-17T09:42:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/09\/insurance-company-must-pay-10-million-for-revoking-policy-of-teen-with-hiv\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T09:42:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T16:42:54","slug":"insurance-company-must-pay-10-million-for-revoking-policy-of-teen-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/09\/insurance-company-must-pay-10-million-for-revoking-policy-of-teen-with-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Company Must Pay $10 Million For Revoking Policy Of Teen With HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/09\/r-AIDS-large.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" alt=\"r-AIDS-large.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/09\/17\/insurance-company-must-pa_n_289841.html\">\n<p>The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered an insurance company to pay $10 million for wrongly revoking the insurance policy of a 17-year-old college student after he tested positive for HIV. The court called the 2002 decision by the insurance company &#8220;reprehensible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That appears to be the most an insurance company has ever been ordered to pay in a case involving the practice known as rescission, in which insurance companies retroactively cancel coverage for policyholders based on alleged misstatements &#8211; sometimes right after diagnoses of life-threatening diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling emerges from a conservative Southern state with one of the most pro-business climates in the country. And it comes as progressive Democrats on Capitol Hill are pressing for health care reforms, such as a public insurance option, that reflect wariness about the private insurance industry&#8217;s motives.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a lower court&#8217;s verdict against Fortis Insurance, now known as Assurant. The trial jury had awarded the former college student, Jerome Mitchell, $15 million in punitive damages; the Supreme Court reduced that amount by $5 million.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/09\/17\/insurance-company-must-pa_n_289841.html\" ><cite>Insurance Company Must Pay $10 Million For Revoking Policy Of Teen With HIV<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/09\/r-AIDS-large.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" alt=\"r-AIDS-large.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/>   The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered an insurance company to pay $10 million for wrongly revoking the insurance policy of a 17-year-old college student after he tested positive for HIV. &#8230;  That appears to be the most an insurance company has ever been ordered to pay in a case involving the practice known as rescission, in which insurance companies retroactively cancel coverage for policyholders based on alleged misstatements &#8211; sometimes right after diagnoses of life-threatening diseases.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1Aq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}