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The California Patient Guide: Your Health Care Rights and Remedies
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Dec 30, 2000Consumer Watchdog
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Energy
Utilities, consumers, governor ponder looming rate hike
The Associated Press State regulators have given electrical utilities extra time to show their financial hardship merits a significant rate hike for…
Dec 29, 2000
Insurance
Ouster of PUC Official Sought — Attorney General Bill Lockyer approved the ‘quo warranto’ suit against PUC member Henry Duque.
San Francisco Daily Journal SAN FRANCISCO - A state public utilities commissioner should be ousted because he bought stock in a company…
Dec 29, 2000
Energy
Nader, utilities clash at PUC: Power firms seek double-digit hikes
The Sacramento Bee SAN FRANCISCO -- With national focus on California's electricity crisis growing, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. began notifying customers…
Dec 29, 2000
Energy
Let debt-ridden utilities go bankrupt, says Nader
PG&E aide labels idea irresponsibleSan Diego Union-Tribune SAN FRANCISCO -- Consumer activist Ralph Nader stepped into the battle over California's failed electrical…
Dec 29, 2000
Healthcare
Groups Offer Health-Care Guide Online
San Diego Union-Tribune Californians struggling to find their way through the managed-care quagmire now have help on the World Wide Web. Over…
Dec 29, 2000
Insurance
EDISON SEEKS OK FOR 2 YEARS OF RATE HIKES
THE COMPANY'S PROPOSAL WOULD ALLOW INCREASES EVERY SIX MONTHS. THE CUMULATIVE BOOST COULD BE AS HIGH AS 76%Los Angeles Times In addition…
Dec 29, 2000First Of Its Kind Guide Available Via Internet at www.calpatientguide.org
Advocates Release New California HMO Patient Guide California patients facing problems with their HMO, concerns over their medical privacy, or questions about…
Dec 29, 2000Consumer Group Files Suit in S.F. Superior Court To Remove Commissioner Duque From PUC for Conflict of Interest
With official permission from the Attorney General, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights filed a lawsuit today in the name of…
Dec 29, 2000Consumer Group Files Suit in S.F. Superior Court To Remove Commissioner Duque From PUC for Conflict of Interest
With official permission from the Attorney General, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights filed a lawsuit today in the name of…
Dec 28, 2000
Energy
Utilities seek immediate rate hike to avoid insolvency
The Associated Press Two huge utilities are seeking permission to make consumers pay as much as 30 percent more for their electricity,…
Dec 28, 2000
Energy
Groups see little room for accord
The San Diego Union-Tribune State consumer groups -- several of which continue to work on plans to overturn electricity deregulation through a…
Dec 28, 2000
Energy
Edison seeks 30% rate hike: “In order to keep the lights on, we need more cash,” a utility lawyer tells the PUC.
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE (RIVERSIDE, CA.) Southern California Edison pleaded for a 30 percent rate hike Wednesday, warning of rotating blackouts and possible bankruptcy…
Dec 28, 2000
Energy
ELECTRIC UTILITIES SEEK UP TO 30% RATE HIKE
EDISON AND PG&E PRESS FOR INCREASE AS THE PUC OPENS HEARINGS. CONSUMER GROUPS SAY COMPANIES GAMBLED WITH DEREGULATION AND SHOULD PAY THE…
Dec 28, 2000
Energy
CALIFORNIA UTILITIES FACE BANKRUPTCY
MARKETPLACE California regulators today considered whether to lift rate caps on electric bills that were a condition of deregulation of the power…
Dec 28, 2000
Energy
CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS FACED WITH RISING ELECTRIC COSTS WHILE POWER COMPANIES SAY THEY’RE ON THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY
National Public Radio MORNING EDITION California's two largest utilities have stated their case for sharply raising electricity rates.
Dec 28, 2000
Energy
As an Energy Crunch Continues, California’s Utilities and Their Customers Clash Over Rates
The New York Times While California's governor was in Washington discussing the state's energy crisis with President Clinton, representatives of dozens of…
Dec 28, 2000
Energy
Electricity rate hike debate heats up
Riverside Press-Enterprise Utility companies and consumer groups escalated their rhetoric Tuesday as the state Public Utilities Commission prepares to take testimony on…
Dec 27, 2000