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Panel rejects bill to make insurance post appointiveOakland Tribune In a signal top legislative leaders intend to deal directly with claims of…
May 25, 2000Examiner EditorialSan Francisco Examiner Reforming the office of state insurance commissioner doesn't mean turning the elected post back into an appointed one…
May 19, 2000San Francisco Chronicle Over the objection of some consumer groups, a plan to return the position of state insurance commissioner to an…
May 18, 2000Associated Press Responding to criticism of elected Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, a state Senate committee has voted to make his job an…
May 18, 2000Sacramento Bee With scandals swirling around state Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, California moved a step closer Wednesday to changing his powerful post…
May 18, 2000Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury News The state Department of Corporations has assessed a $1 million fine _ one of the largest ever…
May 17, 2000Fee Deals Put Focus On Court ReportersNewsday The notion that parties on both sides of a legal case come before a court…
May 17, 2000San Francisco Chronicle The state agency that regulates health plans says Kaiser Permanente should be fined $1 million for failures in providing…
May 16, 2000National Public Radio All Things Considered ROBERT SIEGEL, host: The state of California has levied one of the largest fines ever against…
May 16, 2000* Biggest Calif. HMO Fine Ever In Individual CaseCBS Evening News LOS ANGELES CBS(CBS) Kaiser Permanente, California's largest health insurer, was slapped…
May 16, 2000Quake Victims, Advocates Oppose Legislation to Bar Election of Insurance Commissioner
May 16, 2000Times EditorialLos Angeles Times Amid still more evidence of dereliction, it's clearer that the state insurance commissioner has but one reasonable choice:…
May 15, 20005 PM Friday Fine Keeps HMO Abuses In Dark Governor Davis' Department of Corporations issued a $1 million penalty and a cease…
May 15, 2000Betty Woolfson- Stockton, CA
May 11, 2000Assembly committee rejects effort to deter patients from suing to recover medical costsSan Francisco Examiner SACRAMENTO - Democrats in the Legislature have…
May 10, 2000Consumer Group Says Other States Should Follow Suit
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