Doctor Hit By Lamp Gets $4 Million; If Lamp Hit His Infant Patient, Child Would Get Only $250,000
Doctors' Double Standard Exposed: Malpractice Cap Unfairly Limits Victims' Recovery
Jun 30, 2003Consumer Watchdog
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Insurance
Insurance companies decry effort to reassess homeowner risk
Los Angeles Business Journal Insurers are challenging Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi's efforts to limit the industry use of electronic claims data in…
Jun 30, 2003
Insurance
California’s malpractice-suit cap eyed in Pennsylvania Congress
Philadelphia Inquirer "Prop 103 is the real deal," said Jamie Court, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights in…
Jun 30, 2003CALIFORNIA INSURANCE COMMISSIONER AGREES TO CONSIDER RULE CHANGES TO BAR AUTO INSURANCE RATES BASED MOSTLY ON ZIP CODES
Department to Hold Hearings on New Regulations Requiring Rates Based Primarily On How Policyholders Drive, Not Where They LiveConsumers Union & FTCR…
Jun 27, 2003
Healthcare
Survey lets patients rate, research hospitals
Ten facilities in O.C. take part in the evaluation and get average scoresOrange County Register (California) Critics discredit the rating system, saying…
Jun 25, 2003
Privacy
Who are the special people?
The San Francisco Chronicle So what happened to the politicians is exactly what's going to happen to their constituents -- their Social…
Jun 23, 2003
Privacy
Fight for privacy law gets rougher
Assemblyman upset by partial SS numbers given out; Majority Leader Chan may order probeOakland Tribune If Californians are going to squelch telemarketers,…
Jun 22, 2003
Energy
PUC wary of PG&E deal;
Some commissioners unhappy over 'costly' bankruptcy agreementAlameda Times-Star (Alameda, CA) The governor's critical statements, and those of the PUC commissioners, set off…
Jun 21, 2003Florida Insurer Reneges On Promise to Lower Rates If Malpractice Cap Enacted
California's 2nd Largest Insurer Says Liability Limits Didn't Work
Jun 20, 2003
Energy
State, PG&E Propose Deal to Erase Debt;
Settlement would allow utility to emerge from bankruptcy and lower electricity rates. Gov. Davis says customers deserve bigger cuts.Los Angeles Times Doug…
Jun 20, 2003
Energy
Settlement could put PG&E back on its feet;
But critics say consumers' cost is too highThe San Francisco Chronicle Douglas Heller of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said…
Jun 20, 2003
Privacy
Privacy advocates strike back at lawmakers
Partial Social Security numbers of Assembly members who rejected disclosure limits posted on InternetSanta Rosa Press-Democrat (California) "This is all about politicians…
Jun 20, 2003
Energy
Federal judge announces compromise in PG&E bankruptcy
Associated Press "This may be a great deal for PG&E and its creditors but it is funded out of the pockets of…
Jun 20, 2003
Privacy
Intimidation alleged in state privacy issue;
Lawmakers say group's publishing of partial Social Security numbers is meant to influence the vote.Orange County Register (California) "I wish they were…
Jun 19, 2003
Privacy
Extreme lobbying upsets Assembly;
Lawmakers mad at response to killing privacy billThe San Francisco Chronicle Jamie Court, the executive director of the consumer protection group, said…
Jun 19, 2003