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Mercury Insurance Greases the Wheels for Anti-Consumer Bill

Eleventh 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…

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…

Democrats Resurrect Bill to Punish the Poor

Last-Minute "Gut & Amend" Bill Creates Surcharge On Previously Uninsured Drivers, Enshrines Quackenbush Rules

PG&E’s Creditors Side With PUC

The Los Angeles Times State utility regulators and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. creditors announced a deal Thursday that would raise electricity…

PG&E creditors, PUC regulators make deal;

Consumer groups divided on whether plan benefits ratepayersThe San Francisco Chronicle State regulators announced an agreement Thursday with major creditors of Pacific…

PG&E PLAN LOSES SUPPORT;

LARGE CREDITORS SIDE WITH STATE REGULATORS IN DISPUTE OVER BANKRUPTCYThe San Jose Mercury News Embattled PG&E Corp. lost some ground Thursday as…

Consumers to Help Bail Out PG&E

Associated Press Consumers would pick up the costs of helping Pacific Gas and Electric Co. pay its debts under an agreement reached…

Regulators, PG&E Creditors OK Deal

Associated Press California power regulators have reached a deal with creditors of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. that could force millions of…

‘Pressure Building’ to Fix Malpractice

The Palm Beach Post Now, with premiums soaring 50 percent over the past three years, doctors are crying crisis again. And again,…

Cheating Bosses May Face Snitching

Legislation: A bill to make employees report illegal corporate fiscal practices wins panel's approval. Business and oil interests oppose it.The Los Angeles…

Assembly Committee Passes Tough Corporate Accountability Legislation to Fill Gaps in Federal Law

SB 783 Would Punish Execs Who Cover-Up Fraud, Protect Whistleblowers

1987 Insurance Industry Study on Tort “Reform”: Restrictions on Legal Rights Do Not Lower Insurance Rates

Upping the Ante

The Ventura County Reporter The WorldComs and Enrons of the universe are already suffocating under their own dirty laundry. And in the…

State justices reject challenge to PUC plan; Consumer group contested proposal to revamp PG&E

The San Francisco Chronicle The state Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a consumer organization's challenge to state regulators' plans to bring Pacific…

Court won’t hear PG&E’s rate appeal

Sacramento Bee Pacific Gas and Electric Co. lost another round in its attempts to impose a multibillion-dollar retroactive rate increase when the…

1987 GAO Report: Insurers Reaping Huge Profits During “Crisis”

NICO - 1987

FERC finds evidence of energy price manipulation in California

Minnesota Public Radio - Marketplace AM Report Federal energy regulators are out with a report on what looks a lot like manipulation…