Assurant Inc.

Hartford, CT: (Mar-29-07) The Connecticut Insurance Department filed suit against Assurant Inc. accusing it of wrongly denying claims based on patients' medical history. The suit alleged that Assurant improperly used people's pre-existing health conditions as the basis to deny or delay claim payments. The company paid some claims late and in some cases failed to pay interest on them, as required by state law. In a settlement reached, Assurant companies have voluntarily paid more than $255,000 in restitution and interest on 39 previously denied health insurance claims. An external audit firm has been hired to assess Assurant claim denials from 2001 to 2007 to determine additional restitution. [HARTFORD COURANT: ASSURANT CLAIMS]

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Published on Apr-3-07