Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterTwo members of the International Cinematographers Guild have filed a class action suit alleging they were wrongfully dropped from their health insurance due to the coronavirus pandemic.Greg Endries and Dee Nichols brought the federal suit against the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans, which provide no-cost health coverage to below-the-line workers who qualify.In order to maintain coverage, participants must work 400 hours over a six-month period.
Endries and Nichols contend that they — and many others — would have met that threshold had production not shut down entirely in mid-March.The board of the health plan extended a 300-hour credit to workers whose eligibility deadline fell in April and.
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