Washington external-review reversal rate

25.0%

Reported for 2024 · State-reported

Administered by Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC). This is one cell of a 50-state public-record dataset; across measured jurisdictions the reported rate ranges from 17.0% (West Virginia) to 80.0% (Connecticut).

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~25% overturn rate in 2024 per NBC News attribution to WA OIC. 2024 WA OIC Annual Report identified.

Denominators are not comparable between jurisdictions. Some states count cases received, some completed, some completed-and-eligible; some publish a complaint-process reversal rate broader than IRO-only external review. We reproduce the figure exactly as the jurisdiction published it and do not extrapolate.

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Apellica (2026). The Apellica External Review Index — Washington. v1.0. Released 2026-05-19; resource updated 2026-09-04. CC-BY-4.0. https://apellica.com/external-review-index/washington

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