Sec. 38a-525c. Denial of coverage prohibited for health care services rendered to persons with an elevated blood alcohol content.
Sec. 38a-525c. Denial of coverage prohibited for health care services rendered
to persons with an elevated blood alcohol content. No group 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. 2.)
See Sec. 38a-498c for similar provisions re individual policies.