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SANTA MONICA, CA -- Nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, Consumer Watchdog, has written California Attorney General Jerry Brown to request an investigation into…
Sep 9, 2009Washington, D.C. -- President Obama should not make innocent Americans injured by cost-cutting hospitals and negligent doctors a political sacrifice in his…
Sep 9, 2009A billboard critical of Mercury Insurance is taken down after the firm complains. But a vodka ad suggestive of part of the…
Sep 9, 2009The Google Book Search Settlement has taken yet another twist: in a last minute announcement, the House Judiciary Committee today posted notice…
Sep 9, 2009The latest proposal in the Washington health reform debate protects employers from costs, delivers millions of new customers to the insurance industry…
Sep 9, 2009A group of 10 consumer advocacy groups, including the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America,…
Sep 8, 2009A "framework plan" released today by the so-called "Group of Six" Senators negotiating a health reform bill headed by Senator Max Baucus...
Sep 8, 2009The National Writers Union and Consumer Watchdog were among those to file briefs urging rejection as the Google Book Search Settlement deadline…
Sep 8, 2009Judy Dugan of the Santa Monica-based advocacy group Consumer Watchdog said one of the primary reasons for the HMO system's dysfunction is…
Sep 8, 2009Brief Argues Books Settlement Violates Both U.S. And International Copyright Law, Is Anticompetitive WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Consumer Watchdog today filed a brief…
Sep 8, 2009Washington, D.C. -- The consumer group that pioneered the most successful insurance premium regulation law in the nation, which has saved California…
Sep 8, 2009Wednesday's presidential address to Congress is the moment for President Obama to prove he is a real outsider, and the fate of…
Sep 8, 2009Remember Michael Moore's movie, Sicko? Moore and his editors decided to not use the footage they'd shot in Norway - it can…
Sep 5, 2009LOS ANGELES, CA -- California-based Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, said Mercury Insurance has threatened to sue the owners of…
Sep 4, 2009KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST (voice-over): Good evening from New York. In health news today, the group Consumer Watchdog has asked California Attorney General…
Sep 4, 2009The city of Los Angeles this week announced a major new prescription drug bulk purchasing plan to lower costs for residents. A…
Sep 4, 2009I just got off the phone with a well-informed Dutch reporter based in Washington, D.C. His monumental assignment was, in part, to…
Sep 4, 2009California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown is joining state regulators in scrutinizing the payment practices of seven major health plans in response to…
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