Kemper, United Insurance Can’t Avoid Cancer Coverage Axing Suit

Kemper Corp. and its subsidiary United Insurance Co. must defend allegations that an insurer they previously controlled wrongly terminated patients’ supplemental cancer coverage while they were in the midst of chemotherapy.

Kemper and United argued they couldn’t be liable for the alleged coverage termination, because it occurred after their former subsidiary, Reserve National Insurance Co., was acquired by defendant Medical Mutual of Ohio.

Judge William L. Campbell Jr. declined to dismiss Kemper and United from the proposed class action on this basis, saying in a July 11 order that the patients adequately alleged that Kemper and United “were ...