HIPAA Building Up Steam

The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) has been aggressively working on getting HR 2793 passed through committee with a favorable vote. HR 2793 is the HIPAA Recreational Injury Technical Correction Act. In short, this bill would prohibit health insurance plans covered by HIPAA from denying benefits to injured people who were injured while engaged in a particular mode of transportation, such as motorcycling.

HR 2793 had 81 cosponsors and the Senate companion bill, S 577 had eight, as of May, 2006. On June 2, 2006, Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) followed up on a phone conversation with Attorney Michael Hupy, of Hupy and Abraham S.C., asking her to sign on to this important motorcycle legislation. As a constituent, Attorney Hupy explained the negative impact of such a loophole in the law. Congresswoman Moore wrote to Hupy and thanked him for bringing this matter to her attention. She wrote, “After having carefully considered what you said and researched this legislation, I have asked to be a cosponsor of H.R. 2793.”
Attorney Hupy received the congresswoman’s letter one day after receiving a $20 million dollar award against the government in a case for a child with cerebral palsy. 

Attorney Hupy is a lifetime member of ABATE of Wisconsin and his local regional officer, Paul Vita, sent an e-mail to him thanking him by saying he was sure Hupy’s request was the reason Moore had signed on as cosponsor.

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