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Is State Senator Behind High Insurance Rates?KRON TV4 - San Francisco Consumer advocates say that Mercury Insurance of Southern California paid Senator…
Aug 27, 2002Associated Press Business executives would have to reveal corporate fraud or face the possibility of being hit with fines of up to…
Aug 27, 2002Mercury Insurance Greases the Wheels for Anti-Consumer Bill
Aug 26, 2002Sponsor Mercury Insurance Gave Perata $25,000 Days Before Hearing on Similar Bill Last minute gut-and-amend legislation by Senator Don Perata (Oakland) would…
Aug 26, 2002Sponsor Mercury Insurance Gave Legislators $1,077,550 Since 2000 Last minute gut-and-amend legislation allowing insurers to charge good drivers extra if they had…
Aug 26, 2002The New York Times Around the country this summer, at least half a dozen hospitals have closed obstetric wards, others have curtailed…
Aug 25, 2002Last-Minute "Gut & Amend" Bill Creates Surcharge On Previously Uninsured Drivers, Enshrines Quackenbush Rules
Aug 23, 2002The Los Angeles Times State utility regulators and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. creditors announced a deal Thursday that would raise electricity…
Aug 23, 2002Consumer groups divided on whether plan benefits ratepayersThe San Francisco Chronicle State regulators announced an agreement Thursday with major creditors of Pacific…
Aug 23, 2002LARGE CREDITORS SIDE WITH STATE REGULATORS IN DISPUTE OVER BANKRUPTCYThe San Jose Mercury News Embattled PG&E Corp. lost some ground Thursday as…
Aug 23, 2002Associated Press Consumers would pick up the costs of helping Pacific Gas and Electric Co. pay its debts under an agreement reached…
Aug 23, 2002During the insurance crisis of the 1980s, California's 1975 law restricting the right of injured patients to sue doctors, hospitals and HMOs…
Aug 22, 2002Associated Press California power regulators have reached a deal with creditors of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. that could force millions of…
Aug 22, 2002FTCR - 1994 After the fusillade of restrictions on the rights of victims took effect, of course, the "insurance crisis" of the…
Aug 20, 2002The recent Capitol Hill burials for a Medicare prescription drug benefit and HMO reform signal that California must take matters into its…
Aug 20, 2002The recent Capitol Hill burials for a Medicare prescription drug benefit and HMO reform signal that California must take matters into its…
Aug 20, 2002The Palm Beach Post Now, with premiums soaring 50 percent over the past three years, doctors are crying crisis again. And again,…
Aug 18, 2002