Ethics Board agrees to review insurance commissioner

HARTFORD, Conn. – The Citizen’s Ethics Advisory Board unanimously agreed to take up a petition Thursday from an advocacy group to look at Insurance Commissioner Katharine Wade’s alleged conflicts, if any, as it pertains to the Anthem-Cigna merger.

As the head of the Insurance Department, Wade, a former Cigna vice president whose husband still works for the company, will be overseeing the merger of Anthem and Cigna — two of the largest insurance companies in the country.

Calls for her to step aside from overseeing the merger have been increasing over the past few months and intensified further when advocates learned earlier this month that the Insurance Department gave a thumbs up to the Aetna and Humana merger without a public hearing. Recent attempts to get information about that process have fallen flat.

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