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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000099">Brief Estate Facts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000099">Man killed in motorcycle accident on 7/3/2013, age 59. No Will; not married, no kids, no parents, 4 siblings. On disability at time of death. Estate opened, 8/5/13; Notice to Creditors published beginning
8/16/2013; sent to DSHS/DOR on 8/15/13. Estate administered: $25,000 policy limits recovered each on 3<sup>rd</sup> party liability and 1<sup>st</sup> party UIM coverage; real estate transferred to one sibling via TEDRA; other siblings paid for share of estate
from sibling who retained house. Declaration of Completion filed 2/4/2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000099"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000099">4/11/16 I receive a letter from Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMD), Coordination of Benefits & Recovery (COB&R) notifying me that a Medicare Secondary Payer recovery case has been established in
their system. So, a subrogation claim for Medicare benefits paid on decedent’s behalf. I don’t see how any Medicare benefits could have been paid related to the Date of Incident since he was pronounced dead at the scene, but we’ll see what the Payment Summary/Demand
Letter we get in the next two months. Probably ambulance response, etc. but would be limited.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:#000099">My question for the group, and suspecting some of you have experience with COB&R, is</span></u><span style="color:#000099">:
<b>doesn’t the 2 year bar of RCW 11.40.051 apply?</b> I recall on the listserv a post that the bar applies to DSHS, but not sure on the overlap of what applies here for the Feds involved. Back in my old life I did some PI work and successfully got subrogation
claims waived where recovery was low policy limits such that the injured party was not made “whole”, so I think we can argue that, but best to say “too bad, you’re too late; by 8 months.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000099">Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000099">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000099">Alexis</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000099"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#000099">____________________________<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#000099">Alexis R. Singletary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#000099">Attorney at Law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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