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New Report Shows Insurance Premiums in No-Fault States Continue to Soar
Repealing No Fault Fastest Way To Lower Price of Insurance
Returning Insurance Commissioner To Gubernatorial Appointment Removes People’s Control Over Insurance Rates, Group Says
Legislator Tries To Overturn Prop 103 Reform, Is Challenged
Quackenbush Responsible For Largest Annual Increase in Auto Insurance Premiums Since Passage of 103
Consumers Paying Millions More as Quackenbush Reverses 103 Gains
H.M.O.’s Using Federal Law To Deflect Malpractice Suits
Health maintenance organizations, which care for more than 60 million
people, are telling courts across the country that they cannot be held
responsible for medical malpractice in cases involving patients who
receive care through employer-sponsored health plans. The
H.M.O.'s argue that they are protected against malpractice claims and
lawsuits by a 1974 Federal law that regulates employee benefits.
MURDOCH GIVES $1 MILLION TO STATE GOP
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch--already controversial for his political giving--has made personal contributions of $ 1 million to the California Republican Party, including $ 750,000 this month alone. According to public documents filed Friday by the state GOP, the party also got a personal contribution Oct. 2 of $ 500,000 from George Joseph, head of the Mercury insurance company.
Los Angeles Times
Insurers Attempt 11th Hour End-Run Around Proposition 103’s Good Driver Reforms
Assemblyman Knowles Flouting the Legislative Process With Last-Minute Amendments to Gut Good Driver Discount
Proposition 200
The 'Pure No-Fault' Initiative, California, 1996
This long (18 pages) and complex ballot initiative, rejected by California voters in 1996, would have eliminated the principle of "fault" in every auto accident case, no matter how severe (except those involving criminal activity).
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How A "Minority Organization" Sold Out -- and Got Caught
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