?A number of SSS chambers around the world have stopped accepting DAN America insurance policies or credit cards as payment for recompression services.
Chambers involved include units in the Bahamas, Belize, Galapagos, Mexico and Thailand. A number of them, SSS has claimed, are having to consider closing down because of the 'financial burden of not being paid' by DAN America.
DAN America has said that the dispute is over the levels of treatment charges. It has claimed that SSS is trying to 'force DAN's insurer to accept higher charges' by placing the 'burden of payment on the diver'.
DAN America added that, having analysed SSS's own statements on business activity, it finds it 'hard to believe that SSS facilities would be closing due to insurance issues involving DAN's insurer'.
SSS has said that it has been 'forced to sue DAN America in Federal Court in the United States due to unpaid medical claims, some dating as far back as 2004'. It maintains that rates are not an issue, claiming that other insurers, including DAN networks outside the USA, 'have accepted these same rates as appropriate and paid their bills'. |
