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Just days before Hurricane Andrew struck Florida in 1992, an AIG executive wrote a memo (.pdf of memo) calling the impending devastation…
Sep 17, 2008The problem with Massachusetts' mandatory health insurance law - or any law requiring individuals to buy health insurance - is forcing people…
Sep 16, 2008The insurer wins approval to use $20 billion in assets held by its subsidiaries. American International Group Inc., the nation's largest insurer…
Sep 16, 2008What if a mugger took you at gunpoint to the bank and made you hand over 10% of your savings? (He's a…
Sep 16, 2008Consumer Watchdog Calls on State Insurance Regulators to Protect Consumers From AIG Investment Losses Santa Monica, CA -- Consumers should not…
Sep 15, 2008Santa Monica, CA -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should sign a stem cell public accountability bill, SB1565, into law, Consumer Watchdog said today. …
Sep 15, 2008Remember how incredulous those CNBC Wall Street denizens were when I suggested a few weeks back that insurers' investment losses, particularly in…
Sep 15, 2008California's stem cell agency is hammering out key details of a loan program that could deliver badly needed cash to companies trying…
Sep 15, 2008Consumers' ability to collect damages from drug makers over serious side effects is at stake in an upcoming ruling. Consumer advocates say…
Sep 15, 2008Back in 2004, I had Kaiser health insurance through my employer. I was diagnosed late that year with a fibroid uterine tumor…
Sep 12, 2008Jerry Flanagan of the Consumer Watchdog group in Santa Monica feels sympathy for doctors who can't break what he called the stranglehold…
Sep 12, 2008The company, without admitting fault, will give new coverage to 926 Californians it had dropped and pay fines. One of the state's…
Sep 12, 2008Schwarzenegger Must Keep His 'State of the State' Promise to Protect All Californians By Signing Legislation Los Angeles, CA -- New legislation…
Sep 12, 2008Governor Schwarzenegger should sign a bill that prohibits workers' compensation insurance...
Sep 12, 2008It’s time to cut off the cash flow for politicians who don’t do their jobs. California lawmakers should lose salaries and per…
Sep 12, 2008It's never hard to find self-serving propositions on the California ballot. But there has never been anything quite like this fall's Proposition…
Sep 11, 2008Los Angeles, CA -- Patients whose health coverage was retroactively cancelled after they got sick and filed an insurance claim held a…
Sep 11, 2008The Interstate Alliance on Stem Cell Research, meeting in Baltimore, MD, Tuesday and Wednesday, moved into new territory, opting to develop a…
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