Woman Tells 8th Circuit Policy Does Not Require Facility To Be Licensed

Mealey's (January 18, 2019, 9:43 AM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — An elderly woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease tells the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a brief filed Jan. 2 that a federal judge in South Dakota erred when adopting a report and recommendation suggesting granting her insurance company’s motion for summary judgment, arguing that her long-term care policy did not require the assisted living center at which she was treated to be licensed (Leona Van Dusseldorp v. Continental Casualty Co., et al., No. 18-3257, 8th Cir.)....