If you are in rehab from a stroke and you drop your insurance policy, does the insurance have to pay until you are released from rehab?
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If you are in rehab from a stroke and you drop your insurance policy, does the insurance have to pay until you are released from rehab?
Asked on March 27, 2011 under Insurance Law, Alaska
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
No, they would not. Insurance is a contract; the parties to it are obligated only to perform what's required under the contract, and only so long as the contract is in force and the other party honors its own obligations. You say you dropped you insurance policy (or that you will drop you policy); if you do, then the insurer is no longer obligated to pay your medical costs from that time forward (e.g. to pay for rehabl). Insurers pay benefits in accord with their policies in exchange for receiving premiums; once the insured drops his or her policy (and stops paying as per the policy), the insurer then has no further obligations to that person.
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