Salem, ORIt may not be your average Oregon long term denied lawsuit, but the ugly spat that is brewing between the state of Oregon and software giant Oracle Corp. (Oracle) is mushrooming. At stake is a determination of just who is at fault over the allegedly failed Cover Oregon health care exchange website.
The site, reported by the Bozeman Daily Chronicle (8/24/14) as having never been released to the general public, cost millions to set up. On August 8, Oracle - based in Redwood City, California - filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state of Oregon alleging the state breached its contract. Oracle, in its lawsuit, sought repayment of some $23 million in disputed bills over the allegedly failed project.
A few weeks later, Oregon turned around and shot back, filing its own lawsuit against Oracle in Marion County Circuit Court in Salem. For its part, the state is accusing Oracle of making false statements, breached contracts and engaging in “a pattern of racketeering activity.”
The state is seeking more than $200 million in damages, and earlier this month started a legal kitty that is funded at the $2 million mark, according to the Statesman Journal (9/14/14).
As has been the case with other states throughout the US, Oregon is not insulated from wrongly denied disability claims and other complaints with regard to short-term or long-term disability (LTD), or health insurance in general. Either disability claimants have issue with their own insurance providers or the underwriter responsible for managing and undertaking on an employer’s behalf, LTD coverage for employees.
It all looks good in the fine print. However, insurers have a tendency to deny coverage first and ask questions later, invoking various stonewalling tactics that are allegedly designed to frustrate the claimant to the point where they will throw up their hands and retreat.
Such instances have been fodder for many a long-term denied disability lawsuit.
Akin to the federal online registry, Cover Oregon was to be an online portal for Oregonians to enroll with the Oregon health insurance system under the Affordable Care Act. However, the site was never released to the public, and according to the Bozeman Chronicle, Oregon had little choice but to hire hundreds of additional workers in order to facilitate the processing of paper applications, which all had to be undertaken by hand.
Accusations are flying from both camps.
The Affordable Care Act is an attempt to make health insurance available to more Americans, and in this case Oregonians. Whether Cover Oregon will have any effect on Oregon long-term disability fraud insurance and other hassles Oregonians have had with their LTD, short-term disability or health insurance providers, remains to be seen.
For the short term, Oregon wrongly denied disability claims are expected to continue unabated.
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