Energy
PG&E creditors approve bonuses
Utility must file reorganization plan by end of year, or CEO only gets $600,000 extraThe San Francisco Chronicle PG&E's creditors have agreed…
Jun 5, 2001Consumer Watchdog
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Energy
Bailout Watch #50 – Jun 04, 2001
BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #50 - Jun 04, 2001 Bailout in trouble,…
Jun 4, 2001
Healthcare
HEALTHY OUTLOOK FOR BILL TO ALLOW HMO SUITS
The Recorder Californians who receive botched health care may be able to take their HMO to court if a bill, which passed…
Jun 4, 2001
Energy
Duke Charged Record Price for Electricity
But energy firm agrees to waive 80% of its $3,880-per-megawatt-hour tab, if it gets paid.Los Angeles Times Duke Energy Corp., one of…
Jun 2, 2001
Energy
New Edison plan means business
An Assembly proposal for bailing out the utility would tap big industrial users. Business interests say it's a political escape.The Orange County…
Jun 1, 2001
Energy
Bailout Watch #49 – May 31, 2001
BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #49 - May 31, 2001 Businesses for the…
May 31, 2001
Energy
Plan would have biggest customers pay Edison’s debt
The San Francisco Chronicle Legislative leaders are drafting a new rescue plan for Southern California Edison that would put the utility back…
May 31, 2001
Energy
PG&E sails into bonus storm
Financial Times PG&E, the Californian utility driven to bankruptcy proceedings by the state's power crisis, drew a storm of criticism yesterday over…
May 31, 2001
Energy
Non-disclosure Pacts Keep California Taxpayers in Dark about Power Deals
San Jose Mercury News As state officials cut deals in recent months to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase electricity, they…
May 31, 2001
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, 2001
In The News
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, 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