Two hundred and fifty days late, but not too late: the Delhi State Consumer Commission has accepted that treatment for clinical depression after a husband’s death was sufficient cause to excuse the delay in filing a health insurance complaint. New Delhi: A widow’s health insurance complaint, thrown out by a District Commission as time-barred, will […]
In the Star Health data breach case, the Supreme Court has refused to quash criminal proceedings against cybersecurity researcher Himanshu Pathak, leaving the competing versions of why he accessed and downloaded customer data to be tested before the trial court. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to interfere with the criminal proceedings against […]
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (East), Delhi held Star Health and Allied Insurance Co. Ltd. liable for deficiency in service after wrongly rejecting Anuradha Narang’s health insurance claim, ruling that incidental diagnoses cannot justify denial when treatment was for a covered illness.