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The unanimous ruling upholds willing provider laws, which let group member go to physician not part of network. Calif. excluded because it…
Apr 3, 2003Sacramento Bee In a unanimous opinion, the justices upheld a 1994 Kentucky law allowing HMO patients to seek treatment from doctors, hospitals,…
Apr 3, 2003Justices rule that states can force health care plans to accept more doctors in network.Long Beach Press-Telegram The Supreme Court ruled unanimously…
Apr 3, 2003The Daily News of Los Angeles The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that states can force HMOs to open up their doctor…
Apr 3, 2003
Harry Jordan - Long Beach, California
Apr 2, 2003Senate Bill Would End Industry Blackballing of Consumers Who File a Claim
Apr 2, 2003
Steven Olsen - Chula Vista, California
Apr 1, 2003Bill Would Re-Open Electricity Direct Access Legislation to re-institute a key provision of California's failed electricity deregulation experiment was met with strong…
Apr 1, 2003Modern Physician ..even as Congress and many states consider enacting MICRA look-alikes, the 28-year-old California law is little understood and subject to…
Apr 1, 2003The Oregonian California found that caps on noneconomic damages weren't enough to hold down premium increases. California set limits on increases in…
Apr 1, 2003Western Massachusetts Law Tribune Clearly caps are unfair to those victims with loss of fertility, disfigurement, and other traumas, and they just…
Apr 1, 2003
Kenneth Evan Kennedy - San Francisco, California
Mar 31, 2003San Diego Union-Tribune The object of Pfeffer's ire is State Farm Insurance. The former Rohr Industries buyer said the cost of his…
Mar 30, 2003Fort Collins Coloradoan With medical insurance costs amounting to only 3.2 percent of the average physicians expenses and with only 2 percent…
Mar 29, 2003The Journal News (New York) Bipartisan efforts in Congress to cap portions of jury awards in medical malpractice suits hit a snag…
Mar 28, 2003FTCR Says Davis Should Reverse Support for Utility Bailouts, Get Money Back to Consumers Now that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has…
Mar 26, 2003Who Hit the Jackpot? FTCR today released a document revealing that the top two executives of malpractice insurer the Doctors Company were…
Mar 25, 2003Medical community lobbies for limits on noneconomic damagesModern Healthcare The dual-track effort is a "cynical," back-door attempt to win support at any…
Mar 24, 2003