City of Seattle v. Lewis

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the Washington act did transfer or spread the policyholder's risk by mandating coverage of additional treatments or conditions
• holding that HMOs and other health contractors, even if not “traditional” insurance companies, operate in the “business of insurance” and function as insurance companies
• concluding that the Washington act did transfer or spread the policyholder’s risk by mandating coverage of additional treatments or conditions
• concluding that health care service contractors “are in the business of insurance” since they “function the same way as a traditional health insurer,” promising future health care services to policyholders in exchange for a fee
• the Washington Act did not reach entities beyond those in the insurance industry
• the Washington law was “specifically directed” toward the insurance industry, “because it operates directly on HMOs and [Health Care Service Contractors], entities engaged in the business of health insurance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).