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City attorneys and consumer groups ask the state for relief. Garamendi vows action.The Los Angeles Times Nearly 15 years after the passage…
May 30, 2003City attorneys say geography is determining costsThe San Francisco Chronicle People in cities generally pay more for auto insurance than those in…
May 30, 2003Petition Seeks Regulation Requiring Rates Based Primarily On How Policyholders Drive, Not Where They Live "Proposition 103 made it very clear that…
May 29, 2003Sacramento Bee Fifteen years after California voters approved a ballot measure prohibiting auto insurance rates from being based on ZIP codes, a…
May 29, 2003Wall Street Journal
May 29, 2003The state high court will decide whether the settlement broke the open meeting laws and if customers should be repaid $3.6 billion.Los…
May 28, 2003Rochester Democrat and Chronicle If doctors spent as much time lobbying their insurers and state agencies to hold negligent doctors accountable as…
May 27, 2003Los Angeles Business Journal "Californians were the lab rats for a deregulation experiment that went horribly wrong," said Doug Heller with FTCR.…
May 26, 2003Modern Healthcare ''The Blues' record profits are being fueled by skyrocketing premiums,'' said Jerry Flanagan of the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer…
May 26, 2003North County Times (San Diego, CA) "What you've got here is sort of the heart of the big insurance fraud that Americans…
May 25, 2003Los Angeles Times California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has cracked down on the use of credit scoring by one insurance company that…
May 25, 2003Health plan agrees to pay doctors faster, ease authorizationsThe San Diego Union-Tribune Leading health insurer Aetna Inc. yesterday agreed to settle a…
May 23, 2003Group Calls SB 888 Amendments Proof of Legislative Amnesia California legislation that promised to "end deregulation, not mend it," has been amended…
May 22, 2003Philadelphia Inquirer Consumer advocates and trial lawyers say MICRA is less effective than insurance changes passed in 1988 under Proposition 103, a…
May 22, 2003BIG USERS MAY BE ALLOWED TO SHOP AROUNDSan Jose Mercury News (California) Big power users such as universities and manufacturing plants may…
May 22, 2003After losing legal and regulatory battles, Mercury has responded as it best knows how: by throwing money at politicians.
May 21, 2003Docs rally for laws setting limits on malpractice awardsNewsday (New York) But if the $250,000 cap on pain and suffering were the…
May 21, 2003UPDATE: Dr. Chambi wrote to Consumer Watchdog to dispute the outcome of two cases cited in this news report in April 2011.…
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