EGAN v. NEW YORK CARE PLUS INSURANCE COMPANY, INC.


277 A.D.2d 652 (2000)

716 N.Y.S.2d 430

MICHAEL EGAN, Respondent, v. NEW YORK CARE PLUS INSURANCE COMPANY, INC., et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

Decided November 16, 2000.


Crew III, J. P.

In 1997, plaintiff was diagnosed as having central nervous system Lyme disease. As a consequence, his physician sought from defendants, who insured plaintiff under a "Care Plus Health Care Contract," preapproval of intravenous antibiotic therapy. This request eventually was denied upon the basis that prolonged intravenous antibiotic therapy was not a generally accepted therapy in the treatment of such disease. Consequently, plaintiff commenced this...

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