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- Title: Weaver v. Blue Cross-Blue Shield
- Author : Supreme Court of Wyoming
- Release Date : January 28, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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In this appeal, we are concerned with the rights, both contractual and non-contractual, of an individual to convert a group health insurance policy to another group policy or to an individual policy and, at the same time, maintain continuous coverage which avoids repeating lengthy waiting periods for certain types of coverage. The appellant, Allison Weaver, made several attempts to convert her coverage with appellee, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, to another type of policy when she learned her employer was gong to cancel the group policy under which she was covered. The appellant was pregnant at the time, and her employer intended to switch to a group which did not include pregnancy benefits. Appellant had been a member of the group for almost five years at the time these events transpired. She was told by appellees employee that the conversion was possible. However, due to clerical error on the part of appellee, the conversion did not take place in a timely manner and when the employer terminated the group policy in mid-October 1977, the appellee refused to give appellant a policy that would include continuous coverage. Upon motion of the appellee, the district court granted summary judgment in its favor. The appellant asserts: