RAJKOT: An insurance company’s arguments to reject a chain smoker’s lung cancer treatment claim went up in smoke as a Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in Gujarat’s Rajkot ordered it recently to reimburse him the entire bill within a month.
Rajkot resident Madhukar Vora was admitted to a private hospital in the city in February 2018 and later referred to an Ahmedabad-based hospital, where he was diagnosed with carcinoma of the lungs. He was treated and filed a claim for Rs 6. 53 lakh as medical expenses. But Oriental Insurance Company Ltd rejected his claim on April 30, 2019 on the grounds that he was addicted to an intoxicant.
