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Latest Insurance News

Consumer Watchdog: Wildfire and Windstorm Alert for Los Angeles County and Surrounding Areas

BLOG Will Pletcher - January 13, 2025

If your home has been destroyed or damaged by the recent wildfires or windstorms in California, it’s essential to know your rights and available resources.

Lara Reinsurance Regulation To Pump Up Homeowners Rates By 40% Without Guarantees of New Wildfire Coverage, No Opportunity For Public Input

December 30, 2024

Consumer Watchdog Saves California Policyholders $47 Million in United Financial Auto Insurance Rate Hikes

December 17, 2024

Secret Algorithms to Raise Home Insurance Rates, No Requirement for New Coverage, Under Lara Regulations Issued Today

December 13, 2024

Insurance Commissioner Seeks to Avoid State Review of Regulation Permitting Insurers to Use Secret Black-Box Models to Set Rates

December 11, 2024

Latest Energy News

Oil Driller Sues to Invalidate Landmark Law Closing Down Dangerous LA Oil Field

Jamie Court - November 27, 2024

Los Angeles, CA— The operator of the Inglewood Oil Field has sued to invalidate a new law authored by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, AB 2716,...

Groups Petition CalRecyle To Stop Overpaying Haulers For Contaminated Material

November 26, 2024

Overwhelming Majority Of New Drilling Permit Approvals In 3rd Quarter 2024 Are For Extreme Extraction Techniques; Groups Call on Regulators To End Such Approvals

October 30, 2024

Time For Mayor Breed and CalRecycle To Pull The Plug On The Failed San Francisco Recycling BottleBank Pilot, Consumer Watchdog Says

October 17, 2024

New Minimum Gasoline Reserve Law Will Prevent CA Gasoline Prices Spikes And Should Be A Bellwether For Nation, Consumer Watchdog Says

October 14, 2024

Latest Privacy News

New Report Details How Companies Use Surveillance to Charge Different Prices for the Same Item

Justin Kloczko - December 17, 2024

Corporations use surveillance to charge individualized prices based on a person’s data and assumptions on their eagerness to pay for an item.

CA Privacy Agency Advances Regulations, Might Loosen Rules on Automated Decisions

November 11, 2024

CA Privacy Agency to Data Brokers: Hey, How’s it Going?

October 30, 2024

Newsom Touts Regulating Tech While Vetoing Bills Actually Regulating It

September 30, 2024

Newsom’s Veto of Bill Allowing Consumers to Globally Opt Out of Data Use is Bad for Everyone Except Tech Companies Like Google

September 23, 2024

Latest Healthcare News

Reform of Medical Malpractice Cap Is Working, Support Patient Protection

Blog Jamie Court - December 16, 2024

Over the past five years, KOPE has organized, mentored and trained a cohort of more than 100 patient advocates across the state of California

California Medical Board Proposes Legislation to Recreate Failed Program that Kept Doctor Substance Abuse Secret from Regulators and Public

November 21, 2024

California Medical Board Votes to Back Legislation to Reduce Accountability, Increase Secrecy for Substance Abusing Doctors

BLOG June 28, 2024

California Attorney General’s Office and Osteopathic Medical Board of California Files Charges Against Bakersfield OB/GYN

May 2, 2024

Legislation Targeting Maternity Ward Closures Helps Families Seek Answers for Available Local Labor and Delivery Services

April 17, 2024

Latest Courtroom News

Consumer Watchdog Saves California Policyholders $47 Million in United Financial Auto Insurance Rate Hikes

Ben Powell - December 17, 2024

Los Angeles, CA -- Consumer Watchdog reached a settlement with United Financial Casualty Company and the California Department of Insurance last week, resolving the company’s application...

Insurance Commissioner Seeks to Avoid State Review of Regulation Permitting Insurers to Use Secret Black-Box Models to Set Rates

December 11, 2024

Consumer Watchdog Saves Policyholders Over $325 Million from State Farm Auto Rate Hike; Dispute Erupts Between Commissioner Lara and Chief Administrative Law Judge Who...

December 11, 2024

State Farm, Allstate and Insurance Lobbyists Ask Lara to Override Judge’s Decision

November 15, 2024

Consumer Watchdog Litigation Director Jerry Flanagan Moves On, Is Succeeded By Experienced Consumer Protection Attorney Will Pletcher

November 4, 2024

Insurance Industry Spokesman Maviglio Caught Vandalizing Car On Video; Consumer Watchdog Writes To Inform Head of Trade Group

October 7, 2024

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