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The LA Times and Sacbee got this (formerly) confidential memo from McCain-Schwarzenegger guru Mike Murphy to California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner…
Nov 25, 2009Ok, we already know that United HealthCare, Anthem/Wellpont and other insurance conglomerates are using your health insurance premiums to "help" their employees…
Nov 25, 2009A handful of wealthy California gaming tribes - which together gave nearly $130 million to political causes in 2008 - rank as…
Nov 24, 2009Pre-emption of State Health Benefit Laws Is a Major Retreat; Insurance Rate Justification Shows Promise WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Consumer Watchdog released a…
Nov 23, 2009Sen. Max Baucus will be busy the next few weeks trying to steer a massive health care reform bill through Congress, but…
Nov 23, 2009With lawmakers close to passing a health care overhaul plan, the issue of regulating workplace benefits remains vital because the proposals preserve…
Nov 20, 2009Health insurance conglomerate Anthem Wellpoint recently tried to pawn off in Congress an internal analysis "proving" that health reform would raise health…
Nov 19, 2009Oh, this is rich... The Sacramento Bee reports that Arnold collected $250K last year to finance his political reform ballot measure, Prop…
Nov 18, 2009Imburgia, Mecca and Greiner v. DirecTv Los Angeles Superior Court No. BC 398295 UPDATE: Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Against DirecTv During...
Nov 18, 2009Faigman v. AT&T Mobility LLC U.S. District Court - Northern District of California Case3:06-cv-04622-MHP Suit Against Cingular (Now AT&T) for Providing Customers…
Nov 18, 2009Mercury General, a large auto insurer, wants to legalize premium discounts tolongtime customers and got a bill to that effect passed by…
Nov 18, 2009Remember 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, 2009