I have to say from the start that I haven’t seen anything in my initial pass at the recent controversy surrounding the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund that can’t be explained simply by a dysfunctional board, some tough competition, soaring health care costs, and an overlay of politics.
But I’ve [...]
State v. Thornton (ICA December 1, 2009)
Background. HPD stopped a car in Waikiki for an expired motor vehicle tax. Thornton was driving and Gipson was in the passenger's seat. Thornton presented his ID, vehicle registration, and insurance card. The police suspected that the insurance card was fraudulent and called [...]
At the same time that Summerlin Life and Health Insurance Company, a small Nevada-based insurer, announced its 2004 entry into Hawaii’s tight insurance market, the company was struggling to provide acceptable levels of service in its home state, where it was contracted to offer an HMO plan for Medicaid recipients [...]
Nevadacare, a sister company of Summerlin Life & Health Insurance Co., the firm recently named to provide the “default” health plan to state-county workers in a controversial decision by the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund, agreed late last year to stop doing business in Iowa based on allegations made [...]
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit just issued a decision relating to longshoreman negligence claims made against third parties and the insurance coverage of those claims. The decision is unpublished but is available for download here.
In Bayou Steel Corp. v. Evanston Insurance Co., a stevedore was injured [...]
The Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF) Board of Trustees recently approved health benefit and life insurance plans. Open enrollment has been scheduled for November 2-30, 2009. However, due to worker confusion over health care choices, a special meeting has been called next Monday, November 23,2009, [...]
The woes of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund keep expanding.
Last week was the letter describing the ballooning backlog that could prevent timely verification of health insurance by the beginning of 2010.
Now comes a fat packet of papers for a newly required “Dependent Eligibility Verification”.
In what is described [...]
Silly me. I thought I would drop by the State Capitol yesterday afternoon for the information session about changes in the public employee health insurance plan choices. Just me and thousands of others, it turned out.
There was no parking anywhere near the capitol. The capitol auditorium turned out to be [...]
The administrator of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund, or EUTF, has warned legislative leaders and both state and county personnel officers that vacancies, furloughs, and other issues have created a massive backlog that could leave thousands of public employees unable to access the health care they are paying [...]
