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KRUGER CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS, LLC. v. REGENCE BLUESHIELD

No. 76719-0, 76886-2.

138 P.3d 936 (2006)

KRUGER CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS, LLC, a Washington limited liability company, Petitioner, v. REGENCE BLUESHIELD, a Washington corporation, Respondent. Tacoma Orthopaedic Surgeons, Inc., a Washington corporation; Arthur J. Ozolin, M.D.; John D. Stewart, M.D.; Richard E. Gray, M.D.; John J. Jiganti, M.D.; Peter E. Krumins, M.D.; James J. Wyman, M.D.; Douglas M. Hassan, M.D.; Franciscan Medical Group, a Washington nonprofit corporation, Petitioners, v. Regence Blueshield, a Washington corporation, Respondent, and The Regence Group, an Oregon corporation, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided July 13, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Richard Creatura, James Walter Beck, Gordon Thomas Honeywell, Tacoma, Thomas Jeffrey Keane, Law Offices of Jeffrey Keane PLLC, Bellevue, for Petitioner.

David Donald Swartling, Stephania Camp Denton, Mills Meyers Swartling, Seattle, for Respondent.

Timothy Lee Ashcraft, Williams Kastner & Gibbs, Tacoma, for Amicus Curiae (Pierce County Medical Soc.).

Andrew Kevin Dolan, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae (Snohomish County Medical Soc.).

Elizabeth Christina Beusch, Atty. Generals Office Govt. Compliance, Olympia, for Amicus Curiae (Wash. State Ins. Com'r).

Andrew Kevin Dolan, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae (Wash. State Medical Ass'n).

Martin Lowell Ziontz, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae (Wash. State Podiatric Medical Ass'n).

Debra Leigh Williams Stephens, Bryan Patrick Harnetiaux, Spokane, for Amicus Curiae (Wash. State Trial Lawyers Assoc.).

OWENS, J.

¶ 1 Insurance carrier Regence BlueShield (Regence) provides its insureds with health care services on a prepaid basis through subscriber agreements. Regence contracts with health care providers who agree to serve Regence's insureds on a fee-for-service basis. At issue in these consolidated cases is the enforceability of the arbitration clauses in the provider agreements that Regence entered into with Kruger Clinic Orthopaedics (Kruger) and with Tacoma...

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