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Bill Would Re-Open Electricity Direct Access Legislation to re-institute a key provision of California's failed electricity deregulation experiment was met with strong…
Apr 1, 2003Modern Physician ..even as Congress and many states consider enacting MICRA look-alikes, the 28-year-old California law is little understood and subject to…
Apr 1, 2003The Oregonian California found that caps on noneconomic damages weren't enough to hold down premium increases. California set limits on increases in…
Apr 1, 2003Western Massachusetts Law Tribune Clearly caps are unfair to those victims with loss of fertility, disfigurement, and other traumas, and they just…
Apr 1, 2003
Kenneth Evan Kennedy - San Francisco, California
Mar 31, 2003San Diego Union-Tribune The object of Pfeffer's ire is State Farm Insurance. The former Rohr Industries buyer said the cost of his…
Mar 30, 2003Fort Collins Coloradoan With medical insurance costs amounting to only 3.2 percent of the average physicians expenses and with only 2 percent…
Mar 29, 2003The Journal News (New York) Bipartisan efforts in Congress to cap portions of jury awards in medical malpractice suits hit a snag…
Mar 28, 2003FTCR Says Davis Should Reverse Support for Utility Bailouts, Get Money Back to Consumers Now that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has…
Mar 26, 2003Who Hit the Jackpot? FTCR today released a document revealing that the top two executives of malpractice insurer the Doctors Company were…
Mar 25, 2003Medical community lobbies for limits on noneconomic damagesModern Healthcare The dual-track effort is a "cynical," back-door attempt to win support at any…
Mar 24, 2003A fuel reserve is one of several ideas proposed to curb large price swings when crude oil supplies run short or refineries…
Mar 24, 2003The San Francisco Chronicle "The money for the war will ultimately have to come from somewhere," said Doug Heller, a spokesman for…
Mar 23, 2003Washington, Idaho putting malpractice records onlineSpokesman Review (Spokane, WA) Both states will soon unveil online databases that will include civil judgments from…
Mar 21, 2003
Bill Mitchell - San Diego, California
Mar 19, 2003Insurance Lobbyists Mislead Congress on Dividend Issue
Mar 19, 2003The Register Guard (Eugene, OR) Doctors blame their rising insurance costs on greedy attorneys who, unhindered by a cap, are seeking bigger…
Mar 19, 2003
Ruth MacInnes - San Diego, California
Mar 18, 2003