PIL against insurance firm not paying full claim on COVID death: HC seeks Delhi Govt, IRDA, Fortis reply
The petitioner has sought a direction to the insurance firm to reimburse the hospital bill amount, or as an alternative, the hospital be asked to return the money to her.;
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has sought responses of the Delhi government and the IRDA on a plea by a woman and her two minor children challenging an insurance firm's decision not to pay the entire insured amount on her husband's death after contracting COVID-19.
Justice Rekha Palli issued a notice to the Delhi government, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), the National Insurance Company Ltd and Fortis Hospital at Shalimar Bagh, where the woman's husband died during treatment last year.
The court asked the authorities to file their replies within four weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on December 12.
The plea filed by Delhi resident Sunita Goel and her two minor children said her husband held a mediclaim policy, Parivar Mediclaim Policy, of the insurance company and the sum insured was Rs 5 lakh.
The petition, filed through Anupam Dwivedi, said the woman's husband, Gulshan Kumar Goel, contracted the coronavirus infection in the last week of June 2020 and was hospitalised days later on June 30 at Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, and he expired on July 7, 2020.
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