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California Utilities Trying to Steer Wall St. On Rate Recovery

Move at CPUC: Cover for Report to Investors

City Loses Suit To Squelch Prop LL Rebuttal

Santa Monica Mirror Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Valerie Baker has ruled that The City of Santa Monica must print a rebuttal…

Surviving Family Of HMO Victims & Consumer Groups Challenge Sen. Gorton To Change Vote

Brother of Deceased Cancer Patient and Father of Ailing Baby Bellevue, Washington -Family members of patients wrongfully denied treatment by their HMOs…

Watchdog Group Goes After PUC Commissioner Duque

San Francisco Chronicle A government watchdog group launched a legal maneuver yesterday to oust one of the state's five utility commissioners because…

Consumer Group Begins Legal Process to Remove CPUC Commissioner Henry Duque from Office

In an official filing today with the California Attorney General's office, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) began the legal…

Consumer Group Begins Legal Process to Remove CPUC Commissioner Henry Duque from Office

In an official filing today with the California Attorney General's office, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) began the legal…

Ca. Department of Insurance Begins to Clean House

Consumer Advocates Applaud Commissioner Low's Removal of Legislative Deputy With Close Ties to Insurance Industry

Ashcroft Reconsiders HMO Bill

Kansas City Star WASHINGTON - Sen. John Ashcroft is having second thoughts about his opposition to a high-profile bill that would give…

State to Examine Planned Hospital Closure

Sacramento Bee California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has launched a statewide probe into whether the parent company of Mercy Healthcare Sacramento violated…

California: Blue Cross Proposes Lower Premiums

American Healthline In an attempt to reduce the number of uninsured residents, Blue Cross of California proposed yesterday to reduce premiums and…

Governor Davis Signs Bill For Public Disclosure Of Insurers’ Market Conduct Exams

Blue Cross To Offer Cheap Plan

San Francisco Chronicle Saying it wants to offer cheaper health care to the uninsured, Blue Cross of California proposed premium reductions yesterday…

Utility bills may charge up election

Stockton Record A second major utility has announced its intention to bill customers for costs associated with this summer's skyrocketing power prices,…

PG&E, Edison seek OK to bill consumers for price-hike debt

San Diego Union Tribune The crisis caused by electrical deregulation -- which has blown budgets across San Diego -- is now leading…

Consumer Groups Seek Rate Protection

Electricity: Activists push legislators to promise that customers won't be forced to cover rising wholesale costsLos Angeles Times Consumer activists on Tuesday…

Blue Cross Latest Benefit Cuts Could Create “Junk Policies”;

The Foundation fort Taxpayer and Consumer Rights warned that Blue Cross of California's move today to substantially cut benefits in its policies…

Politicians Challenged to Protect Consumers From the Failures of Electricity Deregulation

Pledge Mailed to Every California Incumbent and Candidates

Gore Partially Adopts Consumer Group Recommendation:

Punitive Measures To Be Taken Against Medicare HMOs That Cherry Pick Yesterday, Vice President Al Gore announced he would first warn, then…