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KGO-TV covers Consumer Watchdog's report on the inappropriate relationship between Google and the executive branch, including how a Northern California NASA airfield,…
Jan 25, 2011Patients are stunned at Blue Shield's 59% rate hike and Consumer Watchdog calls for new powers in California to rein in the…
Jan 10, 2011The defeat of Texas-oil-backed Prop 23, insurance-industry-backed Mike Villines for insurance commissioner, and corporate candidates Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina has shown…
Nov 9, 2010NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission is scolding Google Inc. without punishing the Internet search leader for collecting e-mails, passwords…
Oct 27, 2010Washington, DC -- Consumer Watchdog asked President Obama to force BP Fund Administrator Kenneth Feinberg to withdraw from a keynote address Wednesday…
Oct 26, 2010Maybe Google CEO Eric Schmidt thought he was making a joke, but you'd think by now -- if he is at all…
Oct 26, 2010You've probably heard the description of ways to mislead people that was attributed to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disreali and popularized in…
Oct 26, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA -- Consumer Watchdog welcomed three new steps Google said it is implementing to protect consumers’ privacy in response to…
Oct 22, 2010SEC records suggest that the contributions to his attorney general's campaign played no role in how prosecutors have handled the case against…
Oct 22, 2010Today's LA Times has prominently featured the story of Dana Christensen, a Consumer Watchdog hero, in an article documenting a new lawsuit…
Oct 21, 2010Watchdogs Call For Rate Freeze by President Until Pricing Rules Take Effect WASHINGTON, DC -- State insurance commissioners sent rules to…
Oct 21, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA — Google increased its spending on lobbying 11 percent over the previous year to $1.2 million in the third…
Oct 21, 2010Insurance officials defy industry pushback, finalize key part of healthcare law
Oct 21, 2010While Thursday morning's final vote on the medical loss ratio is getting all the attention, state insurance commissioners meeting in Orlando, Fla.,…
Oct 21, 2010State Insurance Commissioners to Vote Thursday, Send Recommendations to HHS Washington, DC – As the insurance industry lobbies state insurance commissioners in…
Oct 20, 2010SACRAMENTO, CA — The insurance industry has nearly doubled its contributions in support of the Republican candidate for state insurance commissioner in…
Oct 20, 2010The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is scheduled to vote Thursday on regulations governing the law's medical-loss ratio, which requires insurers to…
Oct 20, 2010CW's friend Wendell Potter, a flat-out expert on how health insurance companies behave and how their lobby infiltrates government, has a report…
Oct 19, 2010