Hailey vs. California Physicians’ Service dba Blue Shield of California
Year 2006
Court California Court of Appeal, 4th District, Division 3
Case Number GO35579
Issue
  • Post Claims Underwriting
State
  • California

Health and Safety Code section 1389.3 was designed to stop the practice of post-claims underwriting. Blue Shield should not be allowed to engage in post-claims underwriting and rescind its policy when it fails to sufficiently investigate and turns a blind eye to information it either knew or had access to and ignored.

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Author UP's brief was written pro bono by Sharon Arkin of Arkin & Glovsky.
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