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LOS ANGELES, CA -- Though state regulators fined Blue Cross $1 million last year for improperly dropping policyholders after they fell ill,…
Apr 16, 2008Allstate has been given until an April 24 hearing to prepare arguments in its appeal of a state order to cut its…
Apr 16, 2008Insurance Commissioner Ordered Allstate to Lower Rates by 15.9% Under Prop. 103 Santa Monica, CA – Consumer advocates argue today before a…
Apr 15, 2008Carrier Draws Line After Making 150,000 Pages Public, Including McKinsey Report Allstate's reluctant release of some 150,000 pages of documentation -- including…
Apr 14, 2008Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog petitioned the state Department of Managed Health Care to announce within 10 days its plans regarding…
Apr 14, 2008Insurance commissioner candidate Gene Reed Jr. has taken thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from officers of a Pennsylvania company that has…
Apr 14, 2008Health Insurance Market Trends Fuel Climbing Medical Expenses, Which Are a Sore Point on Wall Street Health insurance -- despite being famous…
Apr 13, 2008Group Asks President to Deflate Oil Markets With Immediate Releases From Strategic Reserve Santa Monica, CA -- As gasoline and diesel…
Apr 11, 2008A California consumer advocate group is condemning Allstate for allegedly "systematically underpaying claims to policyholders, or forcing them into protracted court battles…
Apr 10, 2008
ROBERT SIEGEL, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. MICHELE NORRIS, host: And I'm Michele Norris. In…
Apr 9, 2008Since 2006 Senator Calderon, Sponsor of Bill Allowing Invasions of Medical Privacy, Received $21,690 from Drug Companies and Pharmacies Santa Monica,CA -- Breaches of…
Apr 8, 2008The Mr. Roadshow Column: Q: Can you explain why the price of diesel has gotten so out of hand and is squeezing…
Apr 8, 2008Refineries’ Profit Surge Comes On Top of Record Profits Reaped From High Oil Prices; Group Asks, “Where’s the White House? Where’s Congress?”…
Apr 7, 2008Blue Cross Chief Gets $10 Million as Health Care Costs Continue to Surge "Wellness,'' the new marketing slogan of Blue Cross &…
Apr 7, 2008Documents Show Consumers Need Better Regulation of Insurance Industry; California Rate Cut Shows the Way Santa Monica, CA -- Allstate, the…
Apr 7, 2008After causing an uproar online, "Sam Scoop" pulled his (or her) anti-Greg Pettis Web site. The controversial site came down Wednesday after…
Apr 7, 2008A lot of drivers probably thought they were finally getting a break when then-California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced in 2005 that…
Apr 6, 2008LOS ANGELES, CA -- A state appellate panel has rejected a consumer lawsuit that accuses state regulators of shirking their statutory duty…
Apr 4, 2008