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Section 6: > General Information

Section 6
Administrative Information

Major topics in the Administrative Information Section:

General Information
Your Rights Under The Employee Retirement Income Security Act Of 1974 (ERISA)
Claims And Appeals Rules
Your Rights Under The Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Participants Who Are Unable To Be Located
Right Of Reimbursement And Subrogation
Overpayments
When A Plan Changes Or Ends
About This Handbook

General Information

Plan Name Writers' Guild-Industry Health Fund
Employer Identification Number 23-7108536
Plan Number 501
Plan Administrator Board of Trustees
Writers' Guild-Industry Health Fund
1015 North Hollywood Way
Burbank, CA 91505
Telephone: (818) 846-1015
Outside area: 1-800-227-7863
Type of Plan
Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance benefits
Plan Administration The medical plan is self-funded and self-administered by the Fund. Other benefits are provided through fully insured contracts, administrative services-only contracts and network arrangements, as follows:

INSURED CONTRACTS SELF-FUNDED: ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES ONLY NETWORK ARRANGEMENTS
  • Hartford Life - Life and AD&D
  • PMI/Delta Dental - DHMO
  • PacifiCare Behavioral Health - mental health and substance abuse
  • Outside Claims Administrator - prescription drugs
  • Delta Dental - DPO
  • The Industry Health Network (TIHN)
  • BlueCross of CA - PPO Network for Regular Plan and Low Option Plan in California
  • Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS) - PPO Network for Regular and Low Option Plan outside of California

Chief Executive Officer Terence L. Young
of Legal Process
Writers' Guild-Industry Health Fund
1015 North Hollywood Way
Burbank, CA 91505
Telephone: (818) 846-1015
Outside area: 1-800-227-7863
Or
Mitchel Whitehead
Seyfarth Shaw, LLP
One Century Plaza, Suite 3300
2029 Century Park East
Los Angeles, CA 90067-3063
Sources of Funding All contributions to the Fund are made by employers in accordance with their collective bargaining agreements or participation agreements, and by participants through premium payments. You may obtain information from the Fund as to whether a particular employer is contributing on behalf of participants working under the collective bargaining agreement, as well as the address of any such employer or a list of all participating employers, by request to the Fund's Employer Compliance Department.
Collective Bargaining Agreement Contributions to the Fund are made on behalf of participants in accordance with the collective bargaining agreements between Writers Guild of America, East, Inc., Writers Guild of America, west, Inc. and employers in the industry. The Administrative Office will provide you, upon written request, with copies of the collective bargaining agreements. The collective bargaining agreements are also available for examination at the Administrative Office.
Trust Fund assets are held by the Northern Trust Company, as Trustee at 50 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60075.
Plan Year
The plan year ends on December 31 each year.
Trustees

The names of Trustees of the Writers' Guild-Industry Health Fund are as follows:

Principal Trustees

To contact a Plan Trustee, send correspondence care of the Plan Administrator to the following address:

Writers' Guild-Industry Health Fund
1015 North Hollywood Way
Burbank, CA 91505


Employer Trustees Guild Trustees

JEAN BONINI

J. NICHOLAS COUNTER, III

J. KEITH GORHAM

VIRGINIA HOYT

HARRY ISAACS

STEPHEN KOPPEKIN

HANK LACHMUND

MARC SANDMAN

MARK STUBINGTON

NEAL BAER

TIM LEA

GEORGE MALKO

MONA MANGAN

PAUL NAWROCKI

ADAM RODMAN

STEVEN SCHWARTZ

ROBIN SWICORD

ANN WIDDIFIELD

DAVID YOUNG


Alternate Trustees
Employer Trustees Guild Trustees

TIFFANY BURRELL

STEPHEN CARROLL

JAMES CASEY

JILL GLOSSER

CAROL LOMBARDINI

JOHN MENDONSA

WAYNE RUNYON

LEON SCHULZINGER

JOHN AUERBACH

JOHN BOWMAN

TOM COOK

BARBARA GREYHOSKY

CHRIS KEYSER

ROBERT SCHNEIDER

DAVID WEISS

COUNTESS WILLIAMS



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