Health insurance is meant to provide peace of mind, but many policyholders encounter pain and paperwork, writes Lijee Philip in the ET. It was a long night for 24-year-old Rohan Mehta from Mumbai. After five days of unrelenting fever, he was finally admitted to a hospital. The doctors couldn’t pinpoint what was wrong. He was tested for malaria, typhoid and dengue, but results proved inconclusive. As his temperature touched 103°F and fatigue set in, his physician had decided h

Docs decide method & line of treatment, not insurance firms: Court Jaideep.Deogharia@timesofindia.com writes in the Times of India today: Ghaziabad : Decisions on line and method of treatment are not the insurance company’s to make but the medical fraternity’s, the district consumer commission has ruled in a case related to rejection of a claim to a Covid patient. The order came while the panel was hearing a complaint against Star Health and Allied Insurance, which had denie