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San Jose Mercury News In a bid to restore faith in a scandal-ridden department, Gov. Gray Davis on Monday nominated a low-key…
Aug 1, 2000Davis names Harry Low to succeed QuackenbushSan Francisco Chronicle
Aug 1, 2000Davis names Harry Low to succeed QuackenbushSan Francisco Chronicle
Aug 1, 2000Modern Physician Physicians in California, like Peter Finch's newsman Howard Beale in the movie Network, are as mad as hell and not…
Aug 1, 2000Associated Press Gov. Gray Davis on Monday nominated retired Judge Harry W. Low as California's new insurance commissioner, promising that Low's ``unquestioned…
Jul 31, 2000Emergency Measures Offered, Including Rate Rollback
Jul 28, 2000"Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse" Groups Linked to National Network Funded by Major Tobacco and Corporate Money So-called "lawsuit abuse" groups throughout the…
Jul 26, 2000he Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights urges the Department to seek a restraining order precluding UnitedHealth Group from selling its patients…
Jul 26, 2000St. Louis Post Dispatch The announcement of the mapping of the human genome should be met with suspicion as well as hope.…
Jul 25, 2000Sacramento Bee Allen Hackett was feeling lousy. Hours earlier, surgeons had transplanted his son's healthy kidney into his abdomen.
Jul 24, 2000Opinion EditorialSanta Monica Mirror Over six years after the Northridge quake first traumatized L.A., and five, and a half years under Insurance…
Jul 23, 2000Energy: Reacting to complaints about soaring costs in San Diego County, they plan to consider amending, delaying or killing deregulation billLos Angeles…
Jul 21, 2000The integrity of insurance coverage must be protectedSan Diego Union Tribune Individuals who sit down at their kitchen tables to pick their…
Jul 21, 2000Los Angeles Times In the first of a series of oil industry reports likely to rekindle consumer charges of profiteering, Occidental Petroleum…
Jul 20, 2000Energy: Soaring Profit Reflects Run- Up In Cost Of Crude Oil From A Year Ago. Other Companies Are Expected To Report Similar…
Jul 20, 2000USA Today Top executives from many of the nation's health insurers outlined a plan Tuesday that they say is the first unified…
Jul 19, 2000Associated Press The state's showcase program to provide low-cost car insurance to poor people is coming under fire from agents who say…
Jul 19, 2000Reports That Agents Have Snubbed Consumers Alarms Advocates
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