South Carolina Supreme Court fines insurance company $10-million for revoking coverage of HIV-positive teen
Posted in Editorials, Healthcare, Healthcare Reform on Sep 17th, 2009
In an article in today’s Huffington Post. we learn that the South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered an insurance company to pay $10 million for wrongly revoking the insurance policy of Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year-old college student after he tested positive for HIV. The court called the 2002 decision by the insurance company “reprehensible,” demonstrating an indifference to [...]
