South Carolina's high court has ruled that Fortis Insurance must pay $10 million in damages to Jerome Mitchell for wrongly cutting off his health coverage after the then-17-year-old college student found out he was HIV-positive. The decision affirmed a lower court's finding that Fortis had been wrong to base its decision to rescind Mitchell's policy on a note in his records that implied incorrectly that his diagnosis may have occurred before he got the insurance.
