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Reinvigorated Edison planning to resume dividend payments
Los Angeles Business Journal "It's an outrage that Edison is considering reinstating dividend payments while ratepayers are left holding the bag for…
Jan 27, 2003Reinvigorated Edison Planning To Resume Dividend Payments
Los Angeles Business Journal Don't look now, but Edison International, the utility holding company that was nearly bankrupt a little over one…
Jan 27, 2003Garamendi appeals approval of quake deals; Up Front.
Los Angeles Business Journal Consumer advocates and trial lawyers question whether there were only a few property owners disgruntled by how their…
Jan 27, 2003A look inside; Settlement requires Kaiser Permanente to publish info on doc’s decisionmaking
Modern Healthcare In what some healthcare experts are calling a landmark legal settlement, Kaiser Permanente has agreed to publish on its Web…
Jan 27, 2003Statement of Scott Olsen regarding his son Steven’s Medical Malpratice Story – January 2003
Eleven years ago our son, Steven, was made blind and brain damaged by medical malpractice. Then he became a victim a second…
Jan 27, 2003Parents of Blind and Brain Damaged Victim of Malpractice Call For Correction of Defamatory Claim
AMA President-Elect Misrepresented Damages Received by Child Palmisano claimed, on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, that "$42 million was given to that…
Jan 27, 2003Consumer Group Calls On Public To Stop Phillip Morris From Identity Theft
Public Should Call All Tobacco Makers' Products By Their Name Santa Monica, CA - The public should respond to tobacco maker Phillip…
Jan 27, 2003Large H.M.O. to Make Treatment Guidelines Public
The New York Times Consumer advocates said the moves by Kaiser would push other managed care companies and medical groups to make…
Jan 24, 2003Kaiser settles two lawsuits;
Accused of holding back on care, the HMO will post its treatment guidelines.The Sacramento Bee Kaiser Permanente agreed to make public the…
Jan 24, 2003Kaiser Settles Lawsuit With Consumer Group;
State's largest HMO will post its medical care guidelines, doctors' pay structure on Web site.The Los Angeles Times As part of the…
Jan 24, 2003KAISER PERMANENTE: SETTLES FALSE-ADVERTISING SUIT WITH CONSUMER GROUP
American Health Line Kaiser Permanente yesterday announced that it will disclose some of its internal operations as part of a settlement with…
Jan 24, 2003Kaiser to reveal incentives for physicians
USA TODAY The agreement, announced Thursday, settles a lawsuit brought by several consumer groups that struck at the heart of the public's…
Jan 23, 2003Kaiser to make disclosures of internal health care guidelines
Associated Press Kaiser Permanente and consumer activists announced a legal settlement Thursday that will require the health care giant to disclose the…
Jan 23, 2003KAISER PERMANENTE AND CONSUMER GROUPS AGREE TO LANDMARK PUBLIC DISCLOSURE
Financial Times UK - Global Newswire "Kaiser Permanente has set an important bar for public disclosure that other health plans should meet,"…
Jan 23, 2003Experts Debate Relief from Rising Drug Costs
CNNFN - STREET SWEEP The lure of lower prices has led U.S. consumers to hop on buses headed north of the border,…
Jan 22, 2003