Insurance Denied Cancer Treatment: US man with stage 4 cancer dies after insurer delays coverage, calls treatment ‘not medically necessary’
A 58-year-old man in the United States died after delays in insurance approval allegedly prevented him from receiving a potentially life-extending cancer treatment in time, according to media reports.Eric Tennant, a mining safety instructor from Bridgeport, West Virginia, was diagnosed in 2023 with stage 4 cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive bile duct cancer that had…