Insurance company knowingly engaged in rescission efforts against HIV patients, court finds

In upholding a South Carolina county court’s ruling from 2004 that insurancecompany Fortis (now known as Assurant Health) wrongly terminated an HIV patient’s healthinsurance, the state’s Supreme Court uncovered an “unprecedented” number of HIV-targeted rescissions. While the state’s ruling occurred last September, records from that case that recently were made public showed that Fortis used a computer program and algorithm to pinpoint insurance customers who recently had contracted HIV, with intentions to launch insurance fraud investigations those customers in order to ultimately get their policies canceled, according to a report from Reuters.