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 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; P.A. 12-145, S. 52.)

History: P.A. 12-145 deleted “on or after October 1, 2006”, effective June 15, 2012.

Notation

See Sec. 38a-498c for similar provisions re individual policies.