Joe Magnus

Joe Magnus is a Los Angeles based attorney who specializes in cases regarding the health insurance industry, and their exclusionary practices, among them rescission:

Yesterday Reuters had a blockbuster story on WellPoint's practice of canceling insurance policies for breast cancer patients.

The women all paid their premiums on time. Before they fell ill with breast cancer, none had problems with their insurance. Initially, they believed their policies had been canceled by mistake. They had no idea that WellPoint was using a computer algorithm that automatically targeted them and every policyholder recently diagnosed with breast cancer. WellPoint has responded, claiming that the "story . . . misstates the role of what it terms computer algorithms."