Insurance
CA Energy Commission – Revised Strategic Fuels Reserve Report – July 2002
Tim Hamilton - AUTO
Aug 27, 2002Consumer Watchdog
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Stillwater Report: California Strategic Fuels Reserve – March 2002
Tim Hamilton - AUTO
Aug 27, 2002
Energy
CA Attorney General’s Taskforce on Gasoline Pricing Report – May 2000
Tim Hamilton - AUTO
Aug 27, 2002
Energy
American Petroleum Press Release 2000 –
Gasoline Report At Odds With FactsTim Hamilton - AUTO
Aug 27, 2002Nation’s Strongest Corporate Accountability Law Passes California Assembly
Bill Addresses WorldCom-Style Cover Ups, Intimidation The toughest corporate accountability legislation in the United States passed the California Assembly today. SB 783…
Aug 27, 2002
Insurance
Legislature Boils with Bills
End of the Session Is When Lawmakers and Lobbyists Do Some Arm-TwistingSan Jose Mercury News With months of policy debate dwindling to…
Aug 27, 2002
Insurance
Lawmakers OK Smog Check II, others in rush of session’s last week
Associated Press The Assembly passed a bill requiring business executives to reveal corporate fraud or face possible fines of up to $100,000.…
Aug 27, 2002
Insurance
Is State Senator Don Perata on the Take?
Is State Senator Behind High Insurance Rates?KRON TV4 - San Francisco Consumer advocates say that Mercury Insurance of Southern California paid Senator…
Aug 27, 2002
Insurance
Assembly OKs Bill Requiring Execs to Report Corporate Fraud
Associated Press Business executives would have to reveal corporate fraud or face the possibility of being hit with fines of up to…
Aug 27, 2002Senator Don Perata Authors Eleventh Hour Bill To Surcharge Uninsured Motorists
Sponsor Mercury Insurance Gave Perata $25,000 Days Before Hearing on Similar Bill Last minute gut-and-amend legislation by Senator Don Perata (Oakland) would…
Aug 26, 2002Portrait of a Sacramento Lube Job
Mercury Insurance Greases the Wheels for Anti-Consumer Bill
Aug 26, 2002Eleventh Hour Bill To Surcharge Uninsured Motorists Passes Assembly Committee
Sponsor Mercury Insurance Gave Legislators $1,077,550 Since 2000 Last minute gut-and-amend legislation allowing insurers to charge good drivers extra if they had…
Aug 26, 2002
Healthcare
Rise in Insurance Forces Hospitals to Shutter Wards
The New York Times Around the country this summer, at least half a dozen hospitals have closed obstetric wards, others have curtailed…
Aug 25, 2002