HEALTH INSURANCE: The prosecutor said council will decide by the end of April--HOT

The Pine Avenue Business Association Board of Directors will take action by the end of the month to resolve problems among its members, caused by the cancellation of their insurance.

Jason Cafarella, a lawyer representing PABA, said the board will meet during the last week of April to discuss the matter and take some sort of action. Independent Health has confirmed an end to coverage of the company for groups that received benefits through the business association of March 1.

A spokesperson for the health insurance company said the decision to cancel was based on the association of non-payment of premiums over an extended period of time. However, PABA said Executive Director Mary Jo Zacher Niagara Gazette last week, the matter was a misunderstanding and that she canceled the control of the association has shown all of its insurance payments for independent health care .

Cafarella said he and the PABA board are doing their own investigation. It expects that to conclude here Monday. "We're researching what happened and how it happened," he said. "We have suspicions about how it happened, but it is too early to comment on this right now. "

Cafarella could not give an exact date of the meeting of the board, but it is being expressly "address the issue of insurance and how to fix it." He would not confirm if this would mean issuing PABA refunds to members who have made the insurance payments from the expiration of coverage. Many members were angry with PABA offices demanding an explanation and their money from the receipt of a letter from the independent health annulment.

"They are not giving any information to anyone," said businessman David Huntoon, who has health insurance through PABA. "I went to my office with the paperwork that want to know who is to give refunds ... I had the race gas. "

Cafarella stressed or PABA Zacher, neither office had the authority to grant refunds.

"Only the board may do so in accordance with our statutes," he said before repeating that the issue will be corrected at the next meeting.

Huntoon, who holds Master Sealers water, said he would return to $ 1995 for insurance payments it has made for coverage in March and April. PABA believes it must be difficult to try to resolve the situation timely to examine many of its members are now without health insurance and forced to find other coverage on their own.

"Their board members should be well informed about what is going on," he says. "Why is it taking so long to make a decision about giving refunds?
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