Mader v. Health Care Authority

We are called upon to determine whether Washington State’s health care authority properly determined that part-time community college instructors Eva Mader and Teresa Knudsen (petitioners) were ineligible for employer contributions to their health care coverage during the summer quarter in 1999. We hold that the Health Care Authority (HCA) erred in focusing on petitioners’job titles and quarterly contracts, instead of employing an individualized approach based on petitioners’ actual work circumstances, when determining their eligibility for employer contributions to their health care…