Energy
Gas prices go up again
Erie Times-News (Pennsylvania) January 4, 2008 by Jim Carroll, Erie Times-News Gas...
Jan 4, 2008Consumer Watchdog
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Consumer Advocates to CA Legislative Analyst: Consider Massachusetts Financial Meltdown in Review of Health Care Legislation
Santa Monica, CA -- In a letter sent today to California Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill, a consumer group urged Hill, who is…
Jan 3, 2008Energy Traders Get Their Manufactured $100-Oil Dream, Consumers Brace for $4.00 Gasoline
Group Calls on Congress to Curb Wild Speculation in Energy Markets
Jan 3, 2008
Privacy
This is a “blog” post
This is a post categorized as a "blog" post, so eventually, it should be excluded from certain lists. Li Europan lingues es…
Jan 2, 2008
Insurance
Text of Proposition 103
The full text, with amendments, of California's 1988 historic insurance reform law.
Jan 1, 2008
Privacy
ZIP code changes expected in ’08 Decision to affect Thousand Oaks, neighborhoods
Ventura County Star (California) December 30, 2007 by Rachel McGrath, Correspondent ZIP...
Dec 30, 2007
Privacy
ZIP code changes expected in ’08 Decision to affect Thousand Oaks, neighborhoods
Ventura County Star (California) Consumer advocate Carmen Balber, from the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights, said this illustrates a…
Dec 30, 2007
Insurance
Online consumer advocate resolves disputes
Contra Costa Times (California) December 29, 2007 by Janis Mara STAFF WRITER Online...
Dec 29, 2007
Insurance
Online Consumer Advocate Resolves Disputes;
"This is fascinating. It's like having a John Edwards-style tort lawyer at a cut rate for smaller consumer complaints," said Judy Dugan,…
Dec 29, 2007
Healthcare
Malpractice Law May Deny Justice
Lawyers, citing an award limit, often won't take medical injury suits. Dave Stewart's 72-year-old mother went to Stanford University Medical Center for…
Dec 29, 2007
Privacy
Consumer advocates align to support new patent rules
National Law Journa The groups behind the amicus are: The Public Patent Foundation, Computer & Communications Industry Association, AARP, Consumer Federation of…
Dec 28, 2007
Privacy
Rebates for Customers Of InPhonic In Peril, Again
"The company has decided to use the bankruptcy laws to avoid paying back the consumers it scammed," said Harvey Rosenfield, a lawyer…
Dec 26, 2007
Privacy
WARF patent challengers back new patent continuation rules
Wisconsin Technology Network The groups joining in filing the Public Interest Amici brief include two groups, the Public Patent Foundation and the…
Dec 26, 2007
Insurance
Senator Taps Unions, Firms to Aid Charity
Mark Ridley-Thomas has raised $200,000 this year for a nonprofit he founded. The timing troubles watchdogs. As he vies for a seat…
Dec 22, 2007
Healthcare
Family suing Cigna after company refuses to pay for liver transplant, causing patient to die
CBS-TV Evening News (6:30 PM EST) JOHN BLACKSTONE reporting: As 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan lay dying in the hospital, friends and nurses marched…
Dec 21, 2007
Insurance
The politics of the health care vote
Capitol Weekly Jerry Flanagan of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights called the $25 million "slush-fund money to do the work…
Dec 20, 2007
Insurance
Do Austrian children play the game Telephone?
Honest disclosure from Governor Schwarzenegger about who has been funding his luxury lifestyle as celebrity governor is long overdue. Admissions to the…
Dec 20, 2007