Can Our Health Plan Retroactively Terminate Coverage If a Participant Fails to Notify the Plan of a Divorce During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
ThomsonReuters
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
QUESTION: Our company, which is operating remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, recently learned that an employee failed to inform us of his divorce, which occurred four months ago. Because our health plan does not cover divorced spouses except through COBRA, we would like to retroactively cancel the former spouse’s coverage back to the date of the divorce.
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