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A consumer group has filed a class-action lawsuit against Anthem Blue Cross of California, alleging the company's strategy in deploying an average…
Mar 3, 2010Google, under antitrust scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Justice, the ...
Mar 3, 2010The Senate might break its impasse on financial overhaul if it moves forward with a proposal that would put a consumer financial…
Mar 3, 2010The company used controversial rate hikes, as high as 39 percent, to force older and sicker customers into high-deductible plans with fewer…
Mar 3, 2010On Monday, Consumer Watchdog filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against Anthem Blue Cross, alleging that the insurer is forcing subscribers into…
Mar 3, 2010The Santa Monica-based advocacy group Consumer Watchdog brought the suit, saying Anthem violated a 1993 state law that requires health insurance companies…
Mar 3, 2010SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- A consumer watchdog group filed a lawsuit Monday against California's largest for-profit health insurer on behalf of…
Mar 2, 2010One of the nation's top banking regulators reiterated her support for an independent agency to protect borrowers from predatory lenders, putting her…
Mar 2, 2010The lawsuit seeks class action status and is being brought by Consumer Watchdog, a Santa Monica-based consumer advocacy group, on behalf of…
Mar 2, 2010A few sentences in a Wall Street Journal story Tuesday, on Blue Cross insurance increases, made my eyes pop. If you take…
Mar 2, 2010OAKLAND — A consumer group has sued Anthem Blue Cross for allegedly using its widely publicized rate hikes to attempt to force…
Mar 2, 2010Santa Monica, CA - Anthem Blue Cross, the California subsidiary of the nation’s largest health insurer, WellPoint Inc., has used enormous rate…
Mar 2, 2010Veteran political cartoonist Clay Bennett of Chattanooga has the solution...
Mar 2, 2010Washington, DC – A leaked proposal by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd to give consumer protection authority to the Federal Reserve…
Mar 2, 2010A consumer group filed a lawsuit Monday against Anthem Blue Cross, accusing the insurer of raising rates to force members into policies…
Mar 2, 2010In California, in addition to government scrutiny, WellPoint faces a plaintiff suit¿filed Monday in state court by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog¿that…
Mar 2, 2010Anthem Blue Cross accused of illegal premium hikes - Customers say they are forced into inferior plans LOS ANGELES, March 1 (Reuters)…
Mar 2, 2010LOS ANGELES, CA -- A consumer watchdog group filed a lawsuit Monday against California's largest for-profit health insurer on behalf of policyholders,…
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