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Consumer Group Shows Gasoline Companies’ Profits Spike With Pump Prices
Profits Increased 2003 Based On Price Gouging
Apr 27, 2004BP’s Profit Report Shows Dangerous Trend Continues:
Oil Companies' Profits Spike With Gas Prices
Apr 27, 2004Doctors to transmit orders via computer
San Diego Union-Tribune However, technological advances such as electronic prescribing can be "a double-edged sword" because of privacy issues, said Jerry Flanagan,…
Apr 27, 2004COMMENTARY: L.A. Could Cut Drug Costs With Bulk Buys;
City Council plan would ease the prescription bite for residents.Los Angeles Times Los Angeles can take the lead by approving the proposed…
Apr 27, 2004Cal. Supreme Court Decision in State Farm v. Garamendi [S102251]
Ruling Upholds Proposition 103's Strong Disclosure Requirements of Insurance Industry Redlining Data
Apr 26, 2004CA Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 103 Rules Requiring Disclosure of Insurance Industry’s Redlining Data
Public Right to Know Trumps Insurers' Alleged Trade Secret
Apr 26, 2004Memo to state: volume discount
San Jose Mercury News The state's budget crisis has gone well past the point where it can continue to pick the pockets…
Apr 26, 2004Health care companies offering incentives to jog
CBS Radio News - The Osgood File Some consumer advocates, like HMO expert Jamie Court, think that the health insurance companies are…
Apr 26, 2004TOP 5 COMPANIES IN ARIZONA POST AVERAGE GAIN OF 90%;
SUPPLIERS REAP GASOLINE PROFITSThe Arizona Republic FTCR recently published a report that correlated oil company profits with retail gas prices. Court found…
Apr 25, 2004Regulating insurers touted as solution
Tulsa World Stringent regulation of insurance companies has kept medical malpractice insurance rates stable for 13 years in California, a national consumer…
Apr 25, 2004Little interest in figuring out gasoline prices
The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) It's time for lawmakers to ignore the squeaky wheels, usually called special interests, and get to the bottom…
Apr 25, 2004Shell Asked to Keep Oil Refinery Operating
Los Angeles Times Jamie Court of the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumers Rights has threatened to sue Shell under the…
Apr 24, 2004