mistoffolees
Senior Member
Please see my above posts.I want to see an actual statute that says the employer is prohibited from allowing a employee to cover their former spouse, not a newsletter article. The most you've shown me so far is that there is no statute that says they must, not that there is a statute that says they can't.
TWO DIFFERENT CA LAWYERS say it can't be done. It is forbidden by statute in NJ. Multiple sites specializing in either divorce or health insurance say it's not allowed.
And in my extensive experience in buying health insurance for employees, it was consistently made clear that it is forbidden to have non-family members on a family policy. Every single policy that was offered said "family members". if you could have non-family members, what's to stop someone from insuring their entire neighborhood under their work family plan?
So I've provided extensive documentation. Where's YOUR evidence that it is legally permissible to retain an ex spouse on a employer sponsored medical policy (excluding COBRA or similar policies of course, since it has already been stated that those are clearly permissible). Please provide sufficient evidence to prove those CA lawyers wrong.
Sorry, but I'll stick with multiple lawyers, state statutes, and multiple sites that agree with my experience rather than your ZERO evidence.