Energy
EDISON’S 3RD QUARTER STRONG
The Daily News of Los Angeles Edison's opponents working to stop a bailout agreement between Edison and the California Public Utilities Commission…
Nov 2, 2002Consumer Watchdog
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Energy
Potential Buyers Eye California’s Energy Bonds for Decent Income
The San Diego Union-Tribune The California electricity crisis may have cost state consumers billions of dollars, but it becomes an investment opportunity…
Nov 1, 2002
Insurance
Sizable jump in health-care costs stings employees
Chicago Daily Herald Many employees also are seeing jumps in the amount they're charged as a co-payment for office visits and prescription…
Oct 31, 2002
Privacy
Donation by GOP Heats Up Race for Insurance Chief
The Los Angeles Times As the election nears, the Republican Party has dropped $1.2 million into the campaign of insurance commissioner candidate…
Oct 30, 2002Republican Party Shifts $1 Million+ to Mendoza After Receiving Major Insurance Industry Donations
Party Gives Ins. Commissioner Candidate Double Amount It Gives Simon, And More Than All "Down-Ticket" Candidates Combined
Oct 29, 2002
Insurance
Insurance commissioner race looks familiar
Associated Press State & Local Wire This year's insurance commissioner race looks like a flashback to 1990 - with consumers fretting about…
Oct 29, 2002
Insurance
California Republican party gives more to insurance candidate
Associated Press State & Local Wire The California Republican party has transferred nearly $1.2 million to Gary Mendoza's campaign for insurance commissioner…
Oct 29, 2002
Healthcare
UCI adopts medical error plan
Hospitals: Staff won't immediately face penalty. UC program first assumes that the system is at fault.The Orange County Register University of California…
Oct 28, 2002
Insurance
Insurance commissioner candidates face tough issues; Election 2002 – Getting Out The Vote; John Garamendi
Los Angeles Business Journal Once in office in 1991, Garamendi sparred with the industry over implementation of Prop. 103, which tightened regulations,…
Oct 28, 2002
Energy
Gadfly Stands Front, Center;
Activist Criticized By Some As An OpportunistSan Jose Mercury News If there's a march, a rally or a sleep-in -- whether it's…
Oct 28, 2002
Insurance
Many in San Diego Stung by Insurance Rate Increase
The San Diego Union-Tribune For many people, construction firms, landlords and, increasingly, home buyers the sky-high rates and rapid-fire cancellations of insurance…
Oct 25, 2002
Insurance
Suit Over Insurer’s Handling of Quake Claims Not SLAPP-C.A.
Metropolitan News-Enterprise An unfair competition suit charging the State Farm insurance companies with mishandling claims for property damage resulting from the Northridge…
Oct 23, 2002
Insurance
State court OKs 1994 quake suit
Daily News of Los Angeles A lawsuit accusing State Farm Insurance Co. of mishandling claims from the devastating 1994 Northridge Earthquake may…
Oct 23, 2002
Privacy
Putting Political Reform to the Test
New Law Against Influence-Peddling Creates Legal TangleThe Los Angeles Daily Journal In 1999, a political reform group looked around California and saw…
Oct 23, 2002
Insurance
Appellate court rules quake lawsuit against can go forward
Associated Press State & Local Wire A lawsuit accusing State Farm Insurance Co. of mishandling claims from the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake…
Oct 23, 2002Court of Appeal Rules that Lawsuit Against State Farm for Earthquake Claims Mishandling Should Go Forward
Bill Vetoed By Governor Davis Would Have Protected Consumers From State Farm's Delay Tactics
Oct 22, 2002
Insurance
Wanted: Insurance Watchdog Garamendi says that he has more to accomplish in his former position.
Sacramento Bee So why does Garamendi, 57, want to return to a position he held a decade ago, state insurance commissioner, an…
Oct 21, 2002