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Remember Ernestine, Lily Tomlin's phone operator? Tomlin's now hilariously doing the same chop job on health insurance companies, on behalf of friends…
Nov 18, 2009California Department of Insurance Notice of Noncompliance v. Mercury Insurance Company No. NC-03027545 Consumer Watchdog Joins Insurance Commissioner's Complaint Against...
Nov 18, 2009
Donabedian v Mercury Insurance Company Los Angeles Superior Court No. BC249019 Court of Appeal: Donabedian v. Mercury Insurance Company (2004) 116 Cal.App.4th…
Nov 18, 2009Consumer Watchdog Sues California Department of Managed Health Care for Permitting HMOs to Deny Treatments to Autistic Children after Secret Meetings Between…
Nov 17, 2009“No United HealthCare employee would modify the lobbying letter to favor Medicare-for-All, or even a modest public option, knowing that his or…
Nov 17, 2009Physicians won't have to notify patients of every breach of privacy regarding their records, under a rule finalized by the Dept. of…
Nov 17, 2009The revised Google Books settlement agreement may quiet international opponents, but it still gives Google a monopoly on commercializing out-of-print books where…
Nov 16, 2009There are mixed reviews among the scientific community about whether CIRM's close watch of their grantees is a good thing. To some,…
Nov 16, 2009Opening the door for insurers to sell policies across state lines could allow health plans to avoid tougher requirements in places like…
Nov 16, 2009Finance Bill Expected To Preempt State Health Benefit Mandate Laws Such As HIV Testing, Reconstructive Surgery, Home Health Services WASHINGTON, D.C. --…
Nov 16, 2009Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley received a letter today from Attorney General Jerry Brown asking her to investigate covert recordings of…
Nov 16, 2009Top industry executives piled into Google's Silicon Valley headquarters over the weekend to hear California's Barbara Boxer, New Mexico's Jeff Bingaman and…
Nov 15, 2009When Californians enacted insurance reform with Proposition 103 in 1988, voters prohibited auto insurers from considering prior insurance coverage. Now, two decades…
Nov 15, 2009SACRAMENTO, CA -- As he campaigns to become California's next governor, Republican Steve Poizner often proclaims that auto and homeowner insurance rates…
Nov 15, 2009Google and US authors and publishers submitted a revised settlement to a US judge Friday seeking approval of an agreement that would…
Nov 15, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Google and the Authors Guild filed a new version of a deal to create a massive online library on…
Nov 14, 2009ED SCHULTZ, HOST: UnitedHealthcare, the country's largest insurer, is pressuring employees to do their dirty work for them and lobby Congress against…
Nov 14, 2009And then there is United Health, whose lethal pursuit of profit has been chronicled before on this program. With reform options narrowing…
Nov 14, 2009