Lawsuits, Settlements and Insurance - Washington State Department of Filed: March 2, 2023 as 1:2023cv03027. Conseco's subsequent receipt of differing disability dates, which indicated later dates for the start of LeAnn's disability, should have prompted Conseco to undertake an investigation into the starting date of LeAnn's disability. 3. CIGHIPAACMCHIC 09/03. Under Pennsylvania law, a bad faith action under 42 Pa.C.S. Your premium rate will not be increased by this conversion.Cancer Policy, at 1; see also id. Pursuant to a Conversion provision in the Cancer Policy, when LeAnn's payroll-deducted premium payments stopped in June of 2003, if additional premiums were due, Conseco was required to provide LeAnn with written notice of the required premium:CONVERSION: If this policy was issued on a payroll deduction and after at least one premium payment you are no longer a member of that payroll group or organization, you may elect to continue insurance on an individual basis by remitting your premium through one of our standard direct payment methods. Washington National Insurance Company Review & Ratings (2023) Facing a lawsuit and political opposition, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee has delayed until April a payroll tax aimed at funding the state's first-in-the-nation public long-term care . The new class action follows similar pending lawsuits filed earlier. Additionally, given the extensive documentation and medical records that Conseco received and processed in order to approve claim payments to LeAnn, Conseco should have recognized that some of the information contained in the four physician's statements it had received was incorrect (i.e., that LeAnn was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer on December 7, 2003), thereby rendering the other information contained therein as suspect. LEXIS 95686 at *15, *22 (W.D.Pa.2014) (denying the insurer's motion for partial summary judgment on the insured's claim for bad faith, and holding that the insurance company must conduct a meaningful investigation, which may include an in-person interview, examination under oath, medical authorizations, and/or independent medical examinations, and noting that the insurer did not attempt any of the foregoing.); Bonenberger, 791 A.2d at 381 (noting that the trial court determined that the insurer acted in bad faith when it, inter alia, disregarded the insured's medical records, conducted no independent medical examination, and made no reasonable evaluation based on the insured's presentment). The WOP claim form included a section entitled Physician Statement, which had been completed, and signed by one of LeAnn's physicians on November 18, 2003.