A Steak N Shake employee did not experience a "qualifying event" entitling her and her husband to a COBRA notification after the company began deducting her premium payments for her health insurance from her workers’ compensation benefits while she was on medical leave, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in reversing the district court’s grant of summary judgment in her favor, as well its award of damages, penalties, and attorneys’ fees. Because the terms and conditions of her insurance coverage did not change during her leave, the lower court erroneously found that the reduction in her hours upon her injury constituted a “qualifying event.”
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