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Consumer Group Releases Smoking Gun Documents, In Wake of Fires Warns Homeowners Insured By Mercury to Take Special Care Santa Monica, CA…
Sep 3, 2009The health insurance industry took it on the chin today. A new study exposed their denials of up to 40% of doctor-requested…
Sep 3, 2009The insurers pressured employees to lobby against healthcare reform, Consumer Watchdog alleges. The nation's two largest health insurers have been pressuring employees…
Sep 3, 2009As Congress considers new privacy legislation, consumer and privacy groups have put forward their proposals for limiting online data collection. A coalition…
Sep 3, 2009A Santa Monica group has urged California Attorney General Jerry Brown to probe whether the nation’s two largest health insurers have asked…
Sep 3, 2009NEW YORK, NY -- A consumer group says health insurers UnitedHealth and WellPoint pressured their employees to contact members of Congress and…
Sep 2, 2009It's one thing to see a rowdy health care town hall meeting on TV. It's another to have your boss tell you…
Sep 2, 2009A group of ten consumer groups on Tuesday called on Congress to enact meaningful privacy legislation, and slammed industry efforts as totally…
Sep 2, 2009Government may clamp down on banks, funds and others that don't actually use crude. But will new rules bring down prices? …
Sep 2, 2009Insurers Telling Employees To Lobby Lawmakers For Weaker Health Reform, In Likely Violation Of California Labor Code Santa Monica, CA --…
Sep 2, 2009Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft employ behavioral targeting, in which cookies collect information on users' Web browsing habits, to…
Sep 2, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A coalition of consumer advocate and privacy groups on Tuesday urged the US Congress to protect the public from…
Sep 2, 2009Ten consumer and privacy groups are urging Congress to limit the way online information can be used for advertising and profiling. A…
Sep 2, 2009Harvey Rosenfield, founder of Consumer Watchdog and lead attorney in several lawsuits against the mobile industry, says Conner and other complainers may…
Sep 1, 2009Consumer advocates are concerned about a bill that could ostensibly undo a current Calif. law preventing insurers from "steering" customers to auto…
Sep 1, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Privacy advocates are gearing up to push for broad electronic privacy legislation this fall, hoping to convince lawmakers that…
Sep 1, 2009City Council member testified for casino. Government watchdog groups say the trip was a conflict of interest because Svanda was elected to…
Sep 1, 2009In a state parched by a three-year drought, wildfires are at least partly to blame for the price increases, industry officials and…
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