: skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Blog Home Our mission : consumer protection Insurance Consumer Hotline Thursday , March 29, 2012 Kreidler on Supreme Court case and the state health-care exchange Commissioner Kreidler sat down with TVW's Christina Salerno yesterday for a Q A on health care reform including this week's three days of arguments in the U.S . Supreme Court and the shape of the state's upcoming Health Benefits . Exchange From the : discussion What would change if they overturned the act People are directly benefiting from parts of the act today . People can stay on their parents’ insurance until 26, they can get preventive care with no deductibles all of that would go away . Attorney General Rob McKenna’s lawsuit would undo all of that . The entire law may go down . We’d be
: skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Blog Home Our mission : consumer protection Insurance Consumer Hotline Wednesday , March 28, 2012 State website access.wa.gov among the top nationwide Well-deserved kudos to the folks who run Access.wa.gov a Washington state website that helps make much of what government is doing available on one easy-to-navigate . site The Sunshine Review , a nonprofit group focused on government accountability , recently awarded the site with an A+ grade , meaning that it's one of the most accessible state government sites in the country . From the group's report card on the : site Elected officials are listed with contact information Budgets are posted Audits are posted Contracts are posted in a searchable database The site includes information on requesting public
I am happy to announce that we have added some terrific panelists and speakers to the Additional Insured and Indemnification Issues Conference on May 11, 2012 in New York City, hosted by my good friends at HB Litigation Conferences. Here’s the update from HB: Samuel Romaninsky, Senior Litigation Counsel for Harsco Corporation – a multinational industrial [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Blog Home Our mission : consumer protection Insurance Consumer Hotline Monday , March 26, 2012 How to appeal when your health insurer says no Seattle's KING 5 TV recently did a story on the case of a Tacoma man diagnosed with stage 4 cancer . After trying other treatments , his apparent only remaining option is an experimental anti-cancer drug that his insurer refuses to . cover He contacted our office , and we're helping him navigate the appeals process . Many people don't realize that a denial by your health insurer is not the final word on the . matter There are multiple rounds of appeals available , including to what's called an independent review organization , which is a group that has the power to require your insurer to cover a treatment or