Privacy
The Year of the Consumer
RCR Wireless News Our choice for 2003 is the consumer, the collective 150 million wireless subscribers who are changing the wireless industry…
Dec 22, 2003Consumer Watchdog
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Insurance
Telemortgaging;
Be careful where you click! Too-good-to-be-true loan offers on the Web can lead to a barage of phone calls.The San Francisco Chronicle…
Dec 21, 2003
Privacy
A Multi-Dimensional Conflict for Arnold
With all the brouhaha over the mutual fund industry and its scandal-ridden recent past, California's massive public pension fund, known as CalPERS,…
Dec 20, 2003FTCR Stops ’04 Medical Malpractice Rate Hike By CA’s 2nd Largest Insurer, Saving Doctors $11 Million
Prop 103 Again Blocks SCPIE From Gouging Physicians
Dec 20, 2003FTCR Stops ’04 Medical Malpractice Rate Hike By CA’s 2nd Largest Insurer, Saving Doctors $11 Million
Prop 103 Again Blocks SCPIE From Gouging Physicians
Dec 19, 2003
Insurance
Insurance carriers curb risk;
More home policies canceled, rates hikedBangor Daily News (Maine) "Jacking up the rates has a double function," said Douglas Heller, senior consumer…
Dec 19, 2003
Privacy
A Skybox Reality — No Cash, No Arnold
The Los Angeles Times With a dozen or so people in each box representing various interests, Schwarzenegger -- isn't he the guy…
Dec 19, 2003
Privacy
A Skybox Reality — No Cash, No Arnold
The Los Angeles Times With a dozen or so people in each box representing various interests, Schwarzenegger -- isn't he the guy…
Dec 19, 2003
Privacy
Schwarzenegger Taps Insiders at Fundraiser
The Los Angeles Times Money from Wednesday's event will add to the $2.24 million Schwarzenegger has raised since ousting Gov. Gray Davis…
Dec 18, 2003
Insurance
Governor finally holds capital fund-raiser
600 contributors pay at least $500 to attend twice-canceled event.The Sacramento Bee "He hasn't met with a single consumer group since taking…
Dec 18, 2003
Healthcare
Will HMOs Jingle All the Way to the Bank on Arnold’s Watch?
With health care costs skyrocketing, a new California Health Care Quality Improvement and Cost Containment Commission (AB 1528 Cohn) may have the…
Dec 18, 2003
Insurance
Access Denied
"People here tonight are paying more for dinner with Arnold Schwarzenegger than I make in an entire year as a disabled worker…
Dec 18, 2003
Healthcare
The Real Life Stories Arnold Wouldn’t Hear
An Injured Worker & Price Grouged Patient's Message To The Gov Five years ago, Jodi Greggs, then a 38-year-old, much-in-demand Licensed Vocational…
Dec 17, 2003
Healthcare
Doctoring the Nurse-Patient-Ratios
Tipsters tell ArnoldWatch that lobbyists for the state hospital association were livid when they realized that Arnold's freeze of all pending state…
Dec 17, 2003
Insurance
Sky-Boxing with Arnold
ArnoldWatch was understandably disappointed when the Lakers refused us a jumbo-tron advertisement at Staples Center for last Friday's basketball game -- where…
Dec 16, 2003Group Calls on Newsweek to Disclose Employee Discrimination Lawsuits in Wake of “Lawsuit Hell” Cover Story
FTCR sends letter to Newsweek editors requesting fair disclosure Newsweek should disclose several recent employee discrimination lawsuits targeting the magazine in light…
Dec 15, 2003
Privacy
Gov. Cancels Events Before Activists Can Crash Them
The Los Angeles Times There is no question that Arnold has broken his promise when he says he's not going to fundraise…
Dec 15, 2003