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The health insurer pulled back after multiple math errors in its paperwork were found by its own staff and by an independent…
Jun 25, 2010Congress is expected to approve the bill next week, making it the most far-reaching set of financial reforms since the Great Depression.…
Jun 25, 2010The House/Senate conference committee on financial reform is debating the structure and authority of a consumer financial protection bureau. The issue just…
Jun 22, 2010See the full report this video is based off of here.
Jun 21, 2010Imperial, CA - As Imperial County struggles with major unemployment, many drivers have failed to take advantage of a program that could help them.…
Jun 21, 2010Despite the fixes Facebook has made to its privacy settings, ten groups are asking the social network to do more. Here's what…
Jun 17, 2010WASHINGTON — Privacy activists called on Facebook on Wednesday to give users of the booming social network more control over the use…
Jun 16, 2010A gap in the new contributions law allows him to use a $550,000 donation. SACRAMENTO, CA -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't letting…
Jun 16, 2010Carmen Balber of Consumer Watchdog, which opposes the Senate version, disagreed with the industry’s interpretation. “The scope of pre-emption is much broader…
Jun 16, 2010There’s been an uptick in the number of people who are going the social-media route to take shots at corporations that they…
Jun 16, 2010Palo Alto biotech company StemCells has approved the research use for free of its patented technology by a children's research hospital, clearing…
Jun 15, 2010Mercury "got taken for a ride" by political consultants, said Jamie Court, president and chairman of Consumer Watchdog and a board member…
Jun 14, 2010Washington, D.C. --- The financial reform bill will deregulate state insurance oversight by allowing the Treasury Department to use a new national…
Jun 14, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA — Consumer Watchdog today praised three Congressmen for releasing Google’s purported explanation of its three-year WiSpy snooping and endorsed…
Jun 11, 2010Voters had to work hard to sift through the "obfuscation" and "deception" employed by PG&E and Mercury Insurance, said Doug Heller, executive…
Jun 11, 2010Proponents failed in their attempt “to scam California drivers by authorizing surcharges that voters made illegal in 1988 when they passed Proposition…
Jun 10, 2010Proposition 17, auto insurance measure, appeared to be headed for defeat. With 99. 1 percent of the precincts reporting, it was losing…
Jun 9, 2010Voters rejected two business-backed measures that would have changed the electric power and auto insurance industries in California. Harvey Rosenfield, the noted…
Jun 9, 2010