N.Y. Attorney General, EmblemHealth Reach Settlement Over Continuation Coverage

In a press release, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that his office had conducted an investigation into widespread violations of New York’s Age 29 Law, which requires health insurers to offer young adults continuation health coverage on their parents’ policies until they turn 30. Following the investigation, a settlement was reached with the health insurer requiring it to reinstatement health coverage to more than 8,000 young adults whose coverage was wrongly terminated, and to pay approximately $90,000 in denied claims.

The federal Affordable Care Act …

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