Insurance
Bailout Watch #48 – May 30, 2001
BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #48 - May 30, 2001 Q. What's unaffordable,…
May 30, 2001Consumer Watchdog
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Observan sucesión de Quackenbush
Organizaciones por los derechos de los consumidores celebran salida del ex titular de Seguros Un día después de la dimisión del comisionado…
May 30, 2001
Energy
Contract Killings
How the state's contracts with crucial electric power providers actually encourage them to gouge usSF Weekly As California's energy crisis heads into…
May 30, 2001
Healthcare
Capitol Digest: Senate OKs bill on patients’ rights
Sacramento Bee Patients would retain the right to sue despite health-care agreements that say otherwise under legislation that passed the state Senate…
May 30, 2001
Healthcare
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE CONSIDERS ALLOWING PATIENTS TO SUE HMOS
BestWire The California state Senate has passed a bill that would give patients a choice of suing health maintenance organizations in court…
May 30, 2001
Energy
Bailout Watch #47 – May 29, 2001
BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #47 - May 29, 2001 THEM. "They..." Cheney…
May 29, 2001Bill Creating Patient’s Right-To-Trial Passes California State Senate
First of Better Business Bills Receives Support A bill allowing patients a choice of court or arbitration under California's new right-to-sue law…
May 29, 2001
Healthcare
Senate OKs bill banning mandatory arbitration of substantial harm cases
Associated Press Legislation bolstering a patients' right-to-sue law was narrowly approved by the state Senate on Tuesday despite opposition from business and…
May 29, 2001
Energy
California’s power crisis generating lots of heat
The Orange County Register Detectives would seem to be tripping over each other to discover who did what to whom, and why,…
May 29, 2001
Insurance
Ballot Victories Only Half the Battle, Campaign Reformers Say
Three cities where voters approved donation curbs balk at implementing them.Los Angeles Times Campaign reform advocates turned to the ballot boxes in…
May 27, 2001
Privacy
Average Joes sought for protests
The San Francisco Chronicle The Pig People will be there. So will Medea Benjamin, the former Green Party candidate who likes to…
May 27, 2001
Insurance
EDISON’S CON GAME
OC Weekly In early May, Southern California Edison launched a new statewide television- and radio-advertising campaign designed to convince the public that…
May 25, 2001
Energy
Bailout Watch #46 – May 24, 2001
BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #46 - May 24, 2001 Calling Jerry Maguire.…
May 24, 2001
Energy
Valley heat doesn’t drain state power
The Fresno Bee What happened to the rolling blackouts? With temperatures hitting 100 degrees and higher the last three days, Central California…
May 24, 2001
Energy
Davis to order 1-hour notice of blackouts
Plan also in works to give law enforcement even earlier alertsThe San Francisco Chronicle Gov. Gray Davis will issue an executive order…
May 24, 2001
Privacy
Council discussion sparks renewed debate of conflict measure
Two Claremont officials decide in midst of review of garbage truck bids to try to implement Measure A.Inland Valley Times Almost a…
May 24, 2001
Healthcare
A guide to managed health care published
The San Diego Union-Tribune When Kathy Olsen's 2-year-old son, Steven, fell on a stick that jammed into his face in 1992, it…
May 24, 2001