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Friday, December 11, 2009
An insurance company stops payments for a woman on long-term disability for depression because her Facebook photos show her having fun. Is this going too far?
An insurance company has stopped benefits for a woman on long-term disability for depression because her Facebook photos showed her having fun. Is this going too far?
LIONEL JONES, Fairborn: “Yes. They don’t really have enough evidence — just a picture is not enough to take her off their plan. I don’t think that’s right.”
RICK ANDERSON, Fairborn: “Yes, because depression occurs in intervals and isn’t always measurable. Privacy is not the issue, because Facebook is a public page. You put your pictures on there, therefore you want people to see them.”
BONNIE WETZEL, Beavercreek: “Yes, I do, because everybody’s allowed to have fun. Just because you have a medical diagnosis doesn’t mean you have to be that way every minute.”
BILL JONES, Dayton: “Yes. Insurance companies don’t treat people right.”
RANDALL PICKLE, Dayton: “I think it was going too far. It was in a private area that they shouldn’t have been involved in anyway.”
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