Can an employer cancel my health insurance without informing me.I recieved a letter from carrier informing me I was no longer insured.No change in job
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Can an employer cancel my health insurance without informing me.I recieved a letter from carrier informing me I was no longer insured.No change in job
Asked on June 22, 2009 under Insurance Law, New York
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 14 years ago | Contributor
Did they cancel all health insurance, or just yours? If just yours, it's almost certainly improper and you should consider an attorney to bring a case on your behalf. Similarly, if they cancelled some employees but not others, it's worth getting an attorney to help look into it--there are limits on how differently employees can be canceled vis-a-vis health insurance. (If several or more of you were affected, you could go in together on the cost of the attorney to make it more affordable.) You could also contact the Labor Dept. and see if they will open a complaint and investigation, or possibly refer you to a gov't agency that would look into this on your behalf, to see if there is a labor law violation.
However, if they cancelled all health insurance, they can--companies are not (yet) obligated to provide health insurance to employees and they could simply cancel their policy. If that is the case, there probably is nothing you can do about--you might try calling the Labor Dept. and seeing if under COBRA, you have the right to pick up the insurance if your company has cancelled it, though you'd need to pay the *full* cost of the premiums if you could do this.
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