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2011 news releases

 
December 2011

Kreidler fines GEICO for overcharging thousands of customers - Dec. 21, 2011

Washington hits a grim milestone: 1 million residents with no health insurance - Dec. 13, 2011

November 2011

Sign up to get notified when your health plan wants a rate change - Nov. 1, 2011

October 2011

Earlier and expanded open enrollment period for Medicare - Oct. 11, 2011

Insurance agent who sold fake policies sentenced to prison - Oct. 7, 2011

Scammed retirees to be paid $1.1 million - Oct. 4, 2011

 
September 2011

Northern Life class-action settlement - Sept. 30, 2011

Agents and brokers fined - Sept. 28, 2011

Kreidler fines insurers - Sept. 27, 2011

How to appeal when your health insurer says no - Sept. 21, 2011

Kreidler orders Regence to correct health insurance problems - Sept. 7, 2011

Need health insurance for your child? Open enrollment starts Sept. 15 - Sept. 1, 2011

 

August 2011

Regence BlueShield fined $100,000 for denying contraceptive coverage - Aug. 15, 2011

Agent pleads guilty to theft for selling bogus insurance -
Aug. 3, 2011

 

July 2011

Health insurance rates now public - July 18, 2011

Owner of auto glass companies sentenced in $1.6 million insurance-fraud case - July 14, 2011

 
June 2011

American Bankers Insurance fined $100,000 - June 30, 2011

Kreidler fines insurers and agents more than $750,000 - June 20, 2011

 
April 2011

Kreidler calls for $75,000 fine against insurer - April 28,2011

Kreidler bars insurer from writing new policies - April 27, 2011

Open enrollment for kids ends April 30 - April 27, 2011

New tool helps consumers appeals health denials - April 26, 2011

Kreidler takes action against two insurance agents for misappropriating clients' money - April 7, 2011

Samaritan Ministries ordered to stop offering unauthorized insurance in Washington state - April 1, 2011

 
March 2011

Kreidler fines insurers more than $167,000 - March 30, 2011

Insurance agent arrested; suspected of stealing more than $1 million from elderly clients - March 15, 2011

Individual health plan enrollment for kids starts March 15 - March 14, 2011

Agreement reached, preserving local health care options in Whatcom County - March 11, 2011

Bill ending secrecy of health insurance rates advances - March 8, 2011

 

January 2011

Kreidler calls for health insurance rate reforms - Jan. 27, 2011

Kreidler proposes bills to help health insurance consumers - Jan. 25, 2011

Kreidler fines six Chubb subsidiaries $534,000 for violations - Jan.13, 2011

New 2011 open-enrollment periods for children - Jan. 13, 2011

Insurance Commissioner fined insurers more than $580,000 in 2010 - Jan. 12, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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