Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Insurer revoked leukemia patient’s coverage because it claimed she underpaid her premium by a penny

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One of the worst abuses of the private health insurance industry is the practice of denying claims to pay for necessary care or revoking the coverage of policyholders for frivolous reasons.

The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that a leukemia patient — a single mother of two teenage boys — had her coverage revoked after her penny-pinching insurance company, Discover Benefits, claimed that she had underpaid her premium.


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"And they say a penny is not worth anything. In this case a penny maye have been worth a person's life! Of course, the other side of the coin, a person's life is worth only a penny?" - Chimp





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Walmart spends millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours fighting $7,000 fine for worker death

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The New York Times reported today that Walmart is spending millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours fighting a $7,000 fine assessed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a Walmart employee was trampled to death by a crowd at a store on Long Island.

Though the company has taken steps to address the problems that led to the unfortunate incident, it is continuing to resist the fine because it feels that “the government is improperly trying to define ‘crowd trampling’ as an occupational hazard that retailers must take action to prevent”


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"If they spend a few millions now, they may be able to save hundreds of millions later when this and maybe other employee civil suits will follow?"






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