Mansour v. State ex rel. State Employees Group Benefits Program

LWHIPPLE, Judge.

Defendant, the State Employees Group Benefits Program1, appeals a judgment of the trial court, reversmg the prior final decision of the Claims Review Committee imposing a penalty reduction of benefits on Alfred A. Mansour for Ms failure to timely notify Group Benefits of his hospitalization. For the foregoing reasons, we affirm m part and reverse in part.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

At 2:02 a.m. on Thursday, August 20, 1992, Alfred A. Mansour (Mansour) was admitted into Rapides General Hospital for emergency treatment of an acute myocardial infarction (a heart attack). Mansour…