The United Health Insurance Fund will pay thousands of shekels in compensation and expenses for amputating a leg, after it was delayed and did not provide him with a computerized prosthetic leg, even after the regional labor court ruled that it must provide him with the prosthesis.
The story of D., 27, began about two years ago, when he was injured in a car accident and his leg was amputated above the knee.
He has since undergone a complex rehabilitation, and has struggled with a unified health insurance company that refused to provide him with a computerized prosthesis, despite a determination by medical experts who examined his condition and recommended the prosthesis.
At United they insisted that a standard prosthesis would be good enough.
The cost of a computerized prosthesis reaches hundreds of thousands of shekels, while a standard prosthesis costs several thousand shekels.
Throughout the hearing, D. was forced to remain imprisoned in his home.
Adv. Amikam Harlap, D.'s attorney, Photo: Harlap's office
When the court ruled that he should be provided with the computerized prosthesis, D. thought that he had suffered, but was surprised to find that Meuhedet ignored the verdict: she did not invite him for tests to adjust the prosthesis, and refrained from paying the court costs against her.
Through his attorney, Adv. Amikam Harlap, the young man filed a motion for contempt of court.
During a hearing in the Labor Court, the fund's representative said that there was no impediment to summoning D. for a suitability test in the coming days, and that funding for the prosthesis would be made if and to the extent the Social Security ordered.
Judge Oren Segev ruled that he accepted Adv. Harlap's request, and ruled that Meuhedet was negligent.
The HMO spokesman said in response: "The HMO is not trying to evade a fit test. The reason the test was not conducted is not a disregard for the court or the plaintiff, but the lack of someone to fund the meaning of the fit test."
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