{"id":947848,"date":"2026-10-27T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947848\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T06:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:30:20","slug":"depression-after-spouses-death-sufficient-ground-to-condone-delay-in-consumer-complaint-delhi-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947848\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression after spouse&#8217;s death sufficient ground to condone delay in consumer complaint: Delhi Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case arose after Priya Mehrotra&#8217;s husband, Saurabh Mehrotra, a dentist, suddenly fell ill while working at his clinic on August 16, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He was initially taken to Kukreja Hospital in Delhi and subsequently referred to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, initial investigations did not reveal serious abnormalities. However, his condition deteriorated, and doctors subsequently informed his family that his liver had suffered severe damage.<\/p>\n<p>He was later shifted to the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, where he died on October 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Mehrotra subsequently sought reimbursement of \u20b925.73 lakh towards her husband&#8217;s treatment under a Tata AIG health insurance policy.<\/p>\n<p>However, the insurer rejected the claim in January 2022, stating that treatment for cirrhosis fell within the policy&#8217;s two-year waiting period.<\/p>\n<p>After unsuccessful representations to the insurer and the Insurance Ombudsman, Mehrotra approached the District Consumer Commission alleging deficiency in service.<\/p>\n<p>On February 2, 2026, the District Commission dismissed her complaint as time-barred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The case arose after Priya Mehrotra&#8217;s husband, Saurabh Mehrotra, a dentist, suddenly fell ill while working at his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,324476,288540,6319,84,5770,393,394,44],"class_list":["post-947848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-condonation-of-delay","tag-consumer-commission","tag-depression","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}