Healthcare
HMO Allows Young Boy’s Brain Tumor to Grow, Unrepresented Family Will Have to Drop Arbitration
Zakary Ostertag- Vacaville, CA
May 9, 2000Consumer Watchdog
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Group Asks AG to Block Quackenbush Threat to Evade Court Order
Calls for Court-Appointed "Special Master" to Oversee Insurance Claims Mishandling, Payments
May 8, 2000Gov. Davis Seeks To Strike Provisions Of HMO Liability Law Before Ink Is Dry
HMO-backed Bill To Change Law Before It Takes Effect The Foundation for Taxpayer for Consumer Rights, sponsor of last year's California HMO…
May 8, 2000
Insurance
Resign, Mr. Quackenbush
Los Angeles Times EditorialLos Angeles Times State Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush still insists that he had the consumer's interests at heart. How…
May 7, 2000
Healthcare
Davis Opposes Making It Easier For Consumers To Sue HMOs
Los Angeles Times A provision that makes it easier for consumers to sue their HMOs directly for large unreimbursed medical bills and…
May 7, 2000
Healthcare
HMO Denies 9 Year Old Girl’s Tumor Surgery, Family’s Remedy Limited By Arbitration
Carley Christie- Woodside, CA
May 5, 2000
Healthcare
Woman Suffers Stroke After Botched Surgery HMO’s Arbitration, Denies Her Justice
Maria Russo- Temecula, CA
May 4, 2000
Healthcare
HMOs Take Spritual Approach
USA Today Health plans, buffeted in recent years for their no-frills approach to medical care, are pushing ever further into alternative medicine,…
May 4, 2000Northridge Quake Victims Call for Quackenbush’s Impeachment
Rebuffed for 6 Years, Victims Speak Out About Quackenbush Scandal From Quake-Damaged Condominium ComplexCommunity Assisting Recovery (CARE)
May 4, 2000
Courtroom
After Privacy Flap, a New Name — Other Changes at Prescription-Reminder Firm Less Clear
Two years after Elensys Care Services Inc. ran into an explosion of disapproval over its use of pharmacies' confidential prescription records, the…
May 3, 2000
Healthcare
Man’s Leg in Jeopardy After HMO Delays, Loses Remedy in Arbitration
Joseph Martin Jr.- Carson, CA
May 3, 2000
Healthcare
Kaiser Tightens Rules on Writing Prescriptions
Los Angeles Times Kaiser Permanente said Tuesday that it would abandon a policy of requiring its psychiatrists to prescribe drugs to patients…
May 3, 2000
Healthcare
Accident Victim Denied Treatment by HMO, Arbitration Denies Him Justice
Louis DeGeorge
May 2, 2000
Insurance
Freeze proposed on fund created by Quackenbush
Lawmaker wants Northridge quake victims to benefitAssociated Press A lawmaker wants to freeze $6 million in a fund created by state Insurance…
May 2, 2000
Insurance
Bill seeks to seize Quackenbush fund for quake victims
Sacramento Bee Two state legislators want to seize $6 million from a nonprofit foundation Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush created through insurance settlements…
May 2, 2000
Insurance
FTCR Allstate Earthquake Case
Policyholders To Be Paid in Full, New Foundation Established On September 30, 1997, FTCR filed suit against Allstate Insurance Company.
May 1, 2000Unfair Business Practices Lawsuit Filed Against State Farm
In Wake of Quackenbush Scandal, Consumer Seeks Court Remedy For Northridge Quake Behavior
May 1, 2000
Insurance
Arbitration Increasingly Under Fire
San Francisco Examiner Unhappy with her treatment in a 1997 medical examination and not wanting to sue the doctor and just quietly…
Apr 30, 2000