On Monday (5/18), the OIC added new documents to defend its disapproval of the Washington Counties Insurance Fund (WCIF) health plan rates. In a declaration from staff counsel, the OIC supplied two letters – one from the state Attorney General’s office and one from Teresa Miller from HHS overseeing health plan market reforms. Both documents…
Yikes! The number of lawyers and powerful law firms arguing for association health plan clients continue to swamp the Insurance Commissioner’s Office (OIC). Legal pleadings related to association health plans pour into Olympia at a fairly quick pace now. On May 6th, Stoel Rives, Perkins Coie, and Kutscher, Hereford, etc. filed a summary judgment motion on behalf of…
On April 29th, the Washington Insurance Commissioner (OIC) responded to the Washington Counties Insurance Fund (WCIF) challenge of the OIC’s disapproval of the WCIF 2014 health plans. Although WCIF qualifies as a bona fide association (so says the Commissioner), the rates filed with the agency violated the law as the OIC understands it by establishing…
