Nurses Fight on to Heal America By Donna Smith It has been four years since theCalifornia Nurses Association stood with the Sarkisyan family and their beautiful extended community to fight the decision by the family’s insurance company to deny 17-year-old Nataline coverage for her liver transplant. Though the Sarkisyan’s were successful in pushing CIGNA to overturn […]

Every year for the past four years around this time, Nataline Sarkisyan’s parents build toward an unimaginable anniversary filled with sorrow and pain. On December 20, 2007, they lost their only daughter, 17-year-old Nataline to corporate greed and insurance company cruelty. Nataline died after the insurance giant CIGNA initially denied coverage for a liver transplant […]

Nataline Sarkisyan, a seventeen year old sweetheart with big dreams of designing the gorgeous gowns of the future, woke up in the morning unaware of the solemn disaster that was engraved into the hours of that very day. She and her family, Koko, Hilda, and Bedros, had been tirelessly battling with their insurance company Cigna […]

Yesterday I helped arrange a meeting with Hilda Sarkisyan, a Consumer Watchdog Hall of Famer, and health insurance industry whistleblower and Deadly Spin author Wendell Potter, with Senate staff on Capitol Hill. Hilda’s 17-year-old daughter Nataline died after her insurance company CIGNA refused to pay for a potentially life-saving transplant. The Sarkisyans tried to take CIGNA to […]

BY KATIA KARAGEUZIAN It is official! A new Homenetmen annual sports tournament is born! And it could not have materialized to a more welcoming chapter! Being the second largest local Homenetmen chapter, the thirty three year old San Fernando Valley Massis Chapter had been heading the call for competitiveness and the prospect of having its […]

BY HOURIG FOURNOUZIAN It’s been nearly five years since we lost a beautiful young girl, our dear Nataline Sarkisyan, who at the tender age of 17 lost her courageous battle against leukemia. In the hearts of her family and friends however, Nataline lives on, with her radiant smile and zest for life. And on July […]

PORTER RANCH – They weep still for their blue-eyed Nataline. Their tears flow for what they remember: Their daughter in her room, the pink walls decorated with posters of the Jonas Brothers. They see her there sketching in a notebook the dresses and blouses and jackets she would one day like to design. Nataline Sarkisyan […]

Consumer Watchdog Hall of FamerHilda Sarkisyan lost her 17-year-old daughter Nataline after their insurance company CIGNA refused to pay for a potentially life-saving transplant. CIGNA was able to deny the transplant with impunity because a federal law bars the Sarkisyans, or anyone who gets their insurance from a private employer, from holding the insurance company responsible in […]

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Classic Vanilla Cupcakes 1 cup butter, softened 1 tbsp. baking powder ¾ cup granular sugar ½ tbsp. salt 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract 4 large eggs Pink Frosting ½ cup butter, softened pink food coloring 3 cups of confectioner’s sugar 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract 2 tsp. filtered water Pre-heat […]