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The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog has filed a statewide class action lawsuit against Anthem Blue Cross saying the health insurer is discriminating against…
Jan 15, 2013Private insurance companies are required to cover an expensive treatment for children with autism, but that same coverage is being denied to…
Jan 8, 2013Attorney General Kamala Harris didn't waste any time getting down to business this year. Fox 11 investigative producer Heidi Cuda reports that…
Jan 2, 2013
With just a few hours left in 2012, we've almost reached our year-end fundraising goal and your last opportunity to make a…
Dec 31, 2012CBS-SF's ConsumerWatch investigates our long standing claims that car makers are fixing their MPG claims. Now that the EPA has forced Hyundai…
Dec 25, 2012
Washington, DC – Online complaints from fed-up Hyundai customers across the country launched a Consumer Watchdog investigation into the automaker’s false fuel…
Dec 19, 2012Online shoppers looking to save money may want to change their web browser settings to avoid "dynamic pricing," a common practice among…
Dec 18, 2012
If your 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid or C-Max Hybrid is not getting gas mileage anywhere near Ford’s advertised 47 MPG, you probably…
Dec 13, 2012Anyone who thought manipulation of California energy prices ended with the criminal penalties assessed against executives of companies like Enron and Williams…
Nov 29, 2012California health insurers are proposing double-digit rate increases for hundreds of thousands of policyholders, drawing criticism that health insurers are padding their…
Nov 29, 2012The two-year-old drive to give consumers a simple way to block companies from tracking their behavior as they move across the Internet…
Nov 28, 2012California's largest for-profit health insurer proposes an average rate hike of 18%, but some Anthem customers may see increase of as much…
Nov 28, 2012Two Democratic U.S. Senators from California were among a group of lawmakers who called on the Justice Department to investigate whether oil…
Nov 28, 2012Facebook has run into a fresh attack from privacy activists after the huge social network modified policies on how it manages users'…
Nov 27, 2012While Americans gorged on turkey and yams this Thanksgiving, Facebook spent its holiday dishing out emails regarding the social behemoth's latest policy…
Nov 27, 2012U.S. and European antitrust regulators are poised to crack down on the dominant search company. What changes to Google search might the…
Nov 20, 2012Joaquin Almunia in Europe and Joshua Wright in the United States hold influence in the fight over whether Google abused its dominance…
Nov 20, 2012