9:00 A.M.
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Olympia
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Tuesday, May 6, 2003
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Case No. 1 – 73412-7
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COUNSEL
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American Continental Insurance Company
v.
Susan Steen
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Joseph Hampton
Jacqueline Bell
Michael Withey/Paul Stritmatter
Reed Schifferman/Garth James
Ray Kahler
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SYNOPSIS: Whether a hospital’s cancellation of “claims-made” insurance policies that would have covered the hospital’s liability to a patient for a pre-cancellation injury was a retroactive annulment of insurance prohibited by RCW 48.18.320 or by public policy.
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Case No. 2 – 72807-1
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COUNSEL
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James K. Butzberger,
v.
Allstate Insurance Company, and T.H.E. Insurance Company
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Elena Garella
Bradley Maxa
W. Scott Clement
Satwant Atwall
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SYNOPSIS: Whether a driver who was killed when he got out of his car to go to the aid of a person trapped inside an overturned truck was “using” the overturned truck and/or his own car, for the purposes of underinsured motorist insurance.
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1:30 P.M.
Case No. 3 – 73415-1
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COUNSEL
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Shulamit Glaubach, Dawn Merydith, Kristen Tsiatsios, and all persons similarly situated,
v.
Regence Blueshield
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Steve Berman/Erin Flory
Matthew Bergman/Deborah Senn
David Swartling/Stephania Denton
Gretchen Salazar
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SYNOPSIS: Shulamit Glaubach sued Regence Blue Shield, her health insurer, for not covering prescription birth control. She argues that is illegal discrimination.
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These summaries are not formulated by the Court and are provided for the convenience of the public only.
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