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- Title: Williams v. New Castle County
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Release Date : January 24, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Appellant, Jeffrey Williams, appeals from an order of the district court of November 14, 1991, granting appellee New Castle Countys motion for summary judgment. The core of Williams complaint concerned the countys alleged failure to comply with the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act ("COBRA"), Pub. L. No. 99-272, 100 Stat. 82 (1986), which requires both governmental and private employers to notify group health plan beneficiaries who have lost coverage in certain circumstances of their limited right to elect continued coverage. Williams had been covered under his former wifes health benefits plan provided by New Castle County, her employer. He contends that, after they were divorced, he was removed from coverage without notification of the cancellation or of his rights under COBRA. Thereafter, Williams suffered a heart attack and, when the insurer refused to cover his hospital bills, he initiated this action.