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List of Washington State Insurance Commissioners [5] [6] Name Years Party J. H. Schively: 1909–1913 Republican H.O.Fishback 1913–1933 Republican William A. Sullivan 1933–1961 Democratic Lee I. Kueckelhan 1961–1969 Democratic Karl Herrmann 1969–1977 Democratic Richard G. Marquardt 1977–1993 Republican Deborah Senn: 1993–2001 Democratic
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The Department of Labor and Industries was created by an act of the state legislature in 1921, overseeing industrial insurance, worker safety, and industrial relations. [2] [3] The new agency superseded the Bureau of Labor, created in 1901 to inspect workplaces, and minor state boards and commissions monitoring worker health, safety, and insurance claims.
The state Office of the Insurance Commissioner encourages Washington residents with questions about the transparency rule to contact the state agency at (800) 562-6900.
The office of an insurance commissioner is established either by the state constitution or by statute. While most insurance commissioners are appointed, in some jurisdictions they are elected. [1] The office of the insurance commissioner may be part of a larger regulatory agency, or an autonomous department.
The NAIC is not a regulator; while its members are the insurance commissioners (i.e., the chief insurance regulators) of each U.S. state and six territories, [1] the NAIC is a non-governmental organization that concerns itself with insurance regulatory matters but does not actually regulate. The states have not delegated their regulatory ...
The Exchange sustainability is tied to three funding sources established in statute: (1) the existing 2 percent tax on health insurance premiums sold through Washington Healthplanfinder; (2) reimbursement for activities performed on behalf of Washington Apple Health (the state's Medicaid program), and; (3) an agreed upon carrier assessment. The ...
Kreidler has focused on health reform most of his career and worked to implement the Affordable Care Act in Washington state. He was the first insurance commissioner [10] to reject President Obama's proposal to give insurers another year to sell pre-Affordable Care Act plans and testified before Congress on the law's impact on Washington state.