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Sacramento Bee The HMO-bashing Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is offering supporters of its cause a way to express themselves via…
Jun 18, 2000Los Angeles Times It would seem to be an ideal solution for cash-strapped drivers: Just as auto insurance premiums are poised to…
Jun 16, 2000Sacramento Bee Legal documents filed Thursday by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer argue that a foundation set up by state Insurance Commissioner…
Jun 16, 2000Say Quackenbush should leave office in growing scandalSan Diego Union Tribune A majority of Californians have concluded that embattled Insurance Commissioner Chuck…
Jun 15, 2000Sacramento Bee Two Los Angeles residents filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush and others to personally repay…
Jun 15, 2000Press-Enterprise EditorialRiverside Press-Enterprise At this point, it would be foolhardy to predict that we've heard all we are going to hear about…
Jun 14, 2000Bee EditorialSacramento Bee Something happened Monday to remind us what is at the heart of this scandal: real people, the thousands of…
Jun 14, 2000USA Today Wall Street gave the Supreme Court's decision on managed care a thumbs up Monday, but HMOs' legal battles are far…
Jun 14, 2000This Thursday, the United States Senate Judiciary Committee will vote to limit the ability of injured consumers to band together to hold…
Jun 14, 2000Wahington Times The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 yesterday that health maintenance organization members injured because doctors ration health care in pursuit of…
Jun 13, 2000Associated Press Insurance Department auditors found patterns of stalling and lowballed settlement offers by four insurers handling Northridge earthquake-related claims, reports released…
Jun 13, 2000Sacramento Bee In a decision that could prod Congress to act on health care reform, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that…
Jun 13, 2000Insurance: Confidential records released by state Senate leaders show 20th Century, State Farm and Allstate mishandled hundreds of cases.Los Angeles Times State…
Jun 13, 2000LOS ANGELES TIMES The giant medical practice once owned by MedPartners Inc., whose financial crisis last year disrupted care for about 1…
Jun 13, 2000San Francisco Chronicle Confidential documents that Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush refused to give the Legislature show scores of cases in which insurance…
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