Colorado Assurant Health Lawsuit

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Jennifer Latham and her children in the case had asked for only $7 million in damages when their lawyers sued Assurant Health. However, the Colorado jury awarded her $37 million in damages because it wanted to send a message to Assurant Health. This is just the latest in a string of lawsuits involving the troubled health insurance provider.

Ms. Latham sued Assurant Health for taking back a policy it had issued to her a few months earlier and not letting her know her policy had been canceled. While riding in her car in October 2005, Ms. Latham was hit by a meth dealer fleeing the police. The accident happened just a few months after she had taken out a new health insurance policy. The accident put her in the hospital with broken bones and brain trauma, according to her lawyers.

According to Ms. Latham’s lawyers, Assurant Health tried to rescind Ms. Latham’s policy after the accident, claiming that she had provided ambiguous information about a uterine condition and an emergency room visit for a panic attack in her application for coverage. It is presumed that Assurant Health did this in order to stall payments on Ms. Latham’s hospital bills, something it has been accused of doing in the past.

The lawyers representing Ms. Latham argued that the Assurant Health application was too hard for a layperson to understand, and they presented several witnesses who verified this statement. The jurors agreed, and they awarded roughly $380,000 in damages for Ms. Latham’s past medical bills and other family members’ past medical bills that were related to the automobile collision. The rest of the money was awarded to Ms. Latham for mental suffering, economic, and non-economic damages.

The message is clear: Assurant Health needs to shape up its policies or face a long line of bad faith lawsuits.

If you have Assurant Health and were denied coverage or had your policy rates unfairly increased, then you may be entitled to a settlement similar to Ms. Latham's. The lawyers of Dyer, Garofalo, Mann & Schultz L.P.A. are very experienced in dealing with these types of bad faith insurance lawsuits. Click here to see if you have a case or call us at 1-800-223-8897.