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[Denver Dave]

Health-Care Hell: The insurance company didn't give a damn. The jury decided it ought to give $37 million.
Denver Westward News

Health-Care Hell: The insurance company didn't give a damn. The jury decided it ought to give $37 million.

"She'd signed up for health insurance with Time, also known as Assurant Health, five months before the accident. But as the hospital bills began to roll in, the company launched a review of her application and prior medical records, a process known as "post-claim underwriting." A Time employee then wrote a letter that Latham's attorney, Marc Levy, describes as "a sucker punch to the gut," informing her that the company was rescinding her policy — not just canceling it, but obliterating it, as if it never existed — because she had failed to disclose information about her health history on the application she'd submitted."