Court tells insurance major to pay minor's surgery bill

New India Assurance Company has been ordered by a consumer court to reimburse over Rs 45,000 towards knee surgery charges of the 11-year-old daughter of a claimant, who was refused the money on the ground that he had suppressed her medical history, reports Economic Times.

"There is nothing to show as per medical records of the complainant's daughter that she is suffering from any pre-existing disease," the District Consumer Forum (North) headed by President K K Chopra observed. More....