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SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog’s InsideGoogle.com has taken its online privacy campaign to New York’s Times Square, where it has purchased…
Sep 2, 2010Insurers, Employers Threaten to Drop Low-Benefit Employee Insurance If $750,000 Annual Benefit Limit Is Enforced Washington, DC — Americans were promised…
Sep 2, 2010When Anthem Blue Cross announced its controversial premium increases in California recently, the insurer claimed, "a carrier must be able to receive…
Aug 30, 2010Actuarial Soundness” Defense Protects Insurers At Expense of Rate Regulation, Consumer Watchdog Says Los Angeles, CA -- Anthem Blue Cross’s defense of…
Aug 30, 2010Despite what the spinmeisters over at Google's Public Policy Blog would have you believe, the Internet giant is facing tough...
Aug 28, 2010At the shoe store, 40% off qualifies as at least pretty good. So why does regulators' approval of new, lower rates by…
Aug 25, 2010In August 2008, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company submitted applications to the California Department of Insurance for a rate increase of 4% and…
Aug 25, 2010Wouldn't it be great if we could all deduct our federal income and investment taxes from next year's income? And if we…
Aug 19, 2010The worst definitely didn't happen in Seattle. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners deferred the worst insurance industry demands for weakening the…
Aug 17, 2010The $1-million grants, which went to all but five states, will help many expand public access to information about rate hikes and…
Aug 17, 2010Four members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, on Monday ...
Aug 17, 2010It took my wife an hour and half to make the two mile commute home Monday, after the secret service closed some…
Aug 17, 2010If there's one thing the National Association of Insurance Commissioners don't see much of, it's public attention. Now, however, it's got the…
Aug 17, 2010Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that HHS awarded $46 million in rate review grant funds to 45 states. But how much new…
Aug 16, 2010Insurance Commissioners and Obama Administration Must Resist More Weakening of Curbs on Industry Overhead and Profit, Says Consumer Watchdog Seattle, WA --The…
Aug 16, 2010OLDWICK, N.J. -- Certain life insurance agents and broker-dealer firms could face increased legal liability depending on how the U.S. Securities &…
Aug 16, 2010As part of ObamaCare, the federal government will impose strict new spending rules on health insurers. How it does so could have…
Aug 16, 2010I'm just back from a sweltering week in Washington, DC, convinced that those of us who care about protecting consumers' online privacy…
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