{"id":146339,"date":"2026-03-17T21:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/17\/7th-circuit-splits-on-home-care-coverage-request-in-insurance-policy-dispute\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:17:40","slug":"7th-circuit-splits-on-home-care-coverage-request-in-insurance-policy-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/17\/7th-circuit-splits-on-home-care-coverage-request-in-insurance-policy-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"7th Circuit Splits on Home-Care Coverage Request in Insurance Policy Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

The court’s majority rejected arguments that a discretionary provision allowing alternative care could trigger Illinois rules protecting access to home health services, and one judge dissented and argued the court should have certified the issues to the state high court.<\/p>\n

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The court’s majority rejected arguments that a discretionary provision allowing alternative care could trigger Illinois rules protecting access to home health services, and one judge dissented and argued the court should have certified the issues to the state high court.<\/p>\n

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The court’s majority rejected arguments that a discretionary provision allowing alternative care could trigger Illinois rules protecting access to home health services, and one judge dissented and argued the court should have certified the issues to the state high court. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The court’s majority rejected arguments that a discretionary provision allowing alternative care could trigger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/legal-news-NbKdjN.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}