Sec. 38a-498c. Denial of coverage prohibited for health care services rendered to persons with an elevated blood alcohol content.
Sec. 38a-498c. Denial of coverage prohibited for health care services rendered
to persons with an elevated blood alcohol content. No individual health insurance
policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and
(12) of section 38a-469 delivered, issued for delivery, amended, renewed or continued
in this state on or after October 1, 2006, shall deny coverage for health care services
rendered to treat any injury sustained by any person when such injury is alleged to have
occurred or occurs under circumstances in which (1) such person has an elevated blood
alcohol content, or (2) such person has sustained such injury while under the influence
of intoxicating liquor or any drug or both. For the purposes of this section, "elevated
blood alcohol content" means a ratio of alcohol in the blood of such person that is eight-hundredths of one per cent or more of alcohol, by weight.
(P.A. 06-39, S. 1.)
See Sec. 38a-525c for similar provisions re group policies.