Insurance Industry Makes Big Push for Higher Insurance Rates Under Cover of Clinton Scandal
U.S. Senate to Vote Wednesday on
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Healthcare
HMO Leaves Test Results Unnoticed In File, Patient Dies After Two Major Strokes
Carol Stephens - Buena Park, CA
Sep 2, 1998Independent Study Finds Prop 9 Will Slash Electric Rates By Up To 37%
Poll Shows 57% Of Voters Support Prop 9
Aug 13, 1998
Insurance
HMO Denies Quadriplegic Child Vital Therapy, Thus the Chance to Walk
Ethan Bedrick - Raleigh, NC
Jun 26, 1998Utilities Will Face California Voters on $28 Billion Bailout Tax
States, Congress, Wall Street Watch Closely as Utilities Promise to Spend $50 Million to Defeat Measure
Jun 25, 1998Consumers, Voters Celebrate Two Major Prop 103 Court Victories
Superior Court Orders Commissioner Quackenbush to Stop Allowing Insurers to Use Zip Code-Based Auto Rates; Court of Appeal Strikes Down Legislation That…
Jun 25, 1998
Healthcare
HMO Denies $110,000 Surgery Recommended By Own Doctor, Patient Forced Into Debt
Debra Moran - Winfield , IL
Jun 23, 1998$28 Billion Bailout of Utility Companies Draws National Attention
Consumer and Environmental Groups Blast Faulty Electricity Deregulation
Jun 23, 1998
Healthcare
Cancer Patient Dies From HMO Delays, Husband Has No Remedy
Phyllis Cannon - Oklahoma City, OK
Jun 22, 1998
Healthcare
Pensioner’s Health Care Taken, Has No Remedy Under ERISA
Casey Patelski - Iowa
Jun 19, 1998Court to Hear Arguments in Major 103 Lawsuits Challenging the Continued Use of Arbitrarily-Based Auto Insurance Rates
Consumer and Civil Rights Organizations Joined by Cities of Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco in Lawsuits Against Insurance Commissioner
Jun 19, 1998
Insurance
Cancer Patient With Highest Recovery Rate Denied Treatment
Edward Mycek - La Quinta, CA
Jun 18, 1998
Healthcare
Heart Patient’s Access To Cardiologist Stone-Walled, Dies Due To Mis-Managed Care
Glenn Nealy - New York
Jun 17, 1998
Insurance
Woman Denied Fertility Benefits Retroactively
Linda DeBenedictis - Norwood, MA
Jun 16, 1998
Healthcare
Collapsed Boy — A Cardiac Risk — Told To Take Gatorade, Dies
Alexander Giles, 9 - Houston, TX
Jun 15, 1998
Insurance
$100 MILLION STATE FARM SETTLEMENT;
117 POLICYHOLDERS SUE OVER QUAKE COVERAGEChicago Tribune Consumer activists in California were harshly critical of Illinois insurance officials. "There is some problem…
Jun 12, 1998