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Chevron’s Restrictions On What Franchisees May Sell

Chevron

Ultimately, a Healthy Decision At Giant and CVS Pharmacy

First Giant Food Inc. and then CVS Corp. last week terminated agreements with a Massachusetts marketing firm, Elensys Inc., to mail reminders…

MTBE Excerpt

Chevron Lied On Prices

Honolulu Star Bulletin

CVS Also Cuts Ties To Marketing Service; Like Giant, Firm Cites Privacy on Prescriptions

CVS Corp. yesterday cut its ties to a Massachusetts marketing firm that reminds customers to refill prescriptions, saying customers complained that the…

Consumer Groups Blast Quackenbush for Killing Committee and Study on Excessive Auto Rates and Profits

Quackenbush Allows Insurers to Continue Setting Rates Without Standards

Giant Food Stops Sharing Customer Data; Prescription-Marketing Plan Drew Complaints

In response to a deluge of complaints, Giant Food Inc. announced it will no longer send prescription information to a Massachusetts marketing…

When Private Means Private

Does the average person mind when, after having a prescription filled at the pharmacist, he or she starts getting related junk mail…

ExxonMobil Misleading Full Page Ad

The New York Times

Prescription Sales, Privacy Fears; CVS, Giant Share Customer Records With Drug Marketing Firm

Using technology in a new way to market drugs, CVS Corp. and Giant Food Inc. are sending confidential prescription information to a…

Quackenbush Double-Crosses Consumers on Good Driver Rules

Consumer Group Plans Lawsuit to Invalidate ZIP Code-Based Rating

The Office of the Elected Insurance Commissioner

In 1988, voter approved Proposition 103 made the California Insurance Commissioner an elective post in order to hold the Commissioner accountable to…

Quackenbush Proposes Insurance “Jim Crow” Laws

Proposed Regulations Will Lead to Increased Redlining & Discrimination

Los Angeles Times Confirms Loophole in New Auto Rates

Assembly Committee Moves To Reverse Voters

To Make Insurance Commissioner An Appointed Official

What Is Wrong with California’s 1996 Deregulation Plan

Electricity is too vital to leave in the hands of unregulated power companies. California's 1996 deregulation law took a bad idea and…

Consumer Ad Campaign Against $28 Billion Utility Bailout Tax Continues

Utility Company Commences Own Ad Campaign

Nader, California Consumer Advocates Urge Public Opposition to $28 Billion Utility Tax