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- Title: Maxa v. John Alden Life Insurance Co.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Release Date : January 17, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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KAUFMAN, Senior District Judge. In July of 1984, at the request of Neil Maxa (""Maxa""), as president of H.R. Peterson Co., Inc. (""Peterson""), John Alden Life Insurance Company (""John Alden"") instituted a group health benefit plan for that company.1 Maxa, then sixty-two years old, was accepted by John Alden for group health insurance coverage as an employee of Peterson and received, inter alia, a certificate of group insurance and a brochure, each of which outlined in some detail Maxa's rights and responsibilities under the group plan. When Maxa turned sixty-five years old, his insurance premium was reduced from $210.00 to $134.00. At that time, Maxa did not apply for any Medicare benefits. In early 1989, while still employed by Peterson, Maxa was hospitalized for an extended period of time. At the time of Maxa's death in June, 1989, a number of his medical and hospitalization bills remained outstanding. John Alden paid only some of those bills, claiming that it was not liable under the terms of the plan for the bills which Medicare would have covered if Maxa had enrolled for Medicare.