Hi,
Thank you for addressing my question. For some reason your response got lost in my junk mail folder and I was only now able to retrieve it.

To answer your question I did not contact the agency that monitors the insurance in California simply because I wouldn't know who to call. . .I did not contact the Department of Labor about having been enrolled in a different policy than the one I used to have. I contacted the DOL back in November 2007 two months since my last day of employment and I still had not received the COBRA application package from my employer.

One of the reasons why I have not contacted the DOL is because I'm afraid that if I do, they will call my Company, then the Company will switch me to the right plan and that will be it. If there's a way to at least have them cover the $7000 I paid so far in premium payments for nothing, not to mention the great disservice they've caused me especially considering that in March 2008 I informed them of the urgency of the matter, that I am HIV +, and that I had interrupted my treatment because of the loss of my insurance coverage, and that I could not wait to receive proper medical care any longer.

I am not sure how much of this is going to help, but I had been working for Ansandobreda for 7 yrs at the company headquarters here in NYC. Then in November 2006 they announced they were shutting down the NYC office and relocate the headquarters to San Francisco. Since nobody wanted to follow and I had been with the Company the longest, the CEO offered me a $20,000 raise, a promotion, and commitment (all verbally of course!) to apply for my green card to relocate with them. In February 2007 I relocated to San Francisco to start up the new office by myself. . . In April 2007 they switched plans with Aetna the insurance company. The coverage was the same, but I believe we were passed on to the division that covers California accounts.

Then, when on June 8 I received a termination letter via email, I decided to move back to New York, in fact at the same address I used to live before relocating to SF. When I applied for COBRA I had given my NYC address, but the insurance broker they are using simply enrolled me in the same plan the Company currently has, which is not necessarily what I used to have for the last 7 yrs.

I'm sorry, but after I replied to your request for additional information I was of the impression that I should have been receiving a response from you.

Please advise.

Regards,

GB

Relist: I still need help. The Expert did not reply to me. I still need an answer.