A pyrrhic victory, hardly expansive, on the reimbursement of health care expenses suffered during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic

Commentary on Supreme Court Ruling 682/2024, of 8 May

Abstract

The Social Chamber of the Supreme Court affirms the right of the appellant to reimbursement of his health care expenses paid to a private hospital during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The appellant obtains a pyrrhic victory, due to the amount of the expenses to be reimbursed, and it is difficult to expand to other cases of reimbursement, due to the pandemic context in which it takes place. The reform of the provision regulating the reimbursement of expenses could try to avoid this type of pyrrhic victory in the future.