Consumer Watchdog

Legislators Blame Voters for Quackenbush Scandal

Quake Victims, Advocates Oppose Legislation to Bar Election of Insurance Commissioner

What’s The Fairest Battlefield In The Fight For Better Health Care?

Patients Shouldn't Have To Sign Away Their Right To A Trial In Order To Receive Medical Care Recently, the California Supreme Court…

QUACKENBUSH’S QUAGMIRE

Times EditorialLos Angeles Times Amid still more evidence of dereliction, it's clearer that the state insurance commissioner has but one reasonable choice:…

California Fines Kaiser $1 Million In “Midnight Action”

5 PM Friday Fine Keeps HMO Abuses In Dark Governor Davis' Department of Corporations issued a $1 million penalty and a cease…

HMO Refuses to Provide Standard Medical Procedure, Family’s Costly Arbitration Lost

Betty Woolfson- Stockton, CA

Quake Victims Call for Independent Insurance Watchdog Association In Response to Quackenbush Scandal

Woman Mistreated by HMO Doctor, Claims HMO-Biased Arbitration

Maureen Alexander- Northern California

Letter From Lawyers to Orange County Register

Lawmakers Defy Governor On HMO Reform Law

Los Angeles Times Defying Gov. Gray Davis, lawmakers Tuesday refused to endorse a bill that consumers say would have gutted one of…

Demos fight Davis on HMOs;

Assembly committee rejects effort to deter patients from suing to recover medical costsSan Francisco Examiner SACRAMENTO - Democrats in the Legislature have…

Insurers’ Cost-Cutting Measures Violate Attorneys’ Ethical Duties, Court Rules

Consumer Group Says Other States Should Follow Suit

Governor Davis Attempt To Narrow HMO Liability Law Fails

On Tuesday, the Assembly Judiciary Committee defeated a bill backed by Governor Davis to narrow the scope of California's HMO liability law.

HMO Allows Young Boy’s Brain Tumor to Grow, Unrepresented Family Will Have to Drop Arbitration

Zakary Ostertag- Vacaville, CA

Group Asks AG to Block Quackenbush Threat to Evade Court Order

Calls for Court-Appointed "Special Master" to Oversee Insurance Claims Mishandling, Payments

Gov. Davis Seeks To Strike Provisions Of HMO Liability Law Before Ink Is Dry

HMO-backed Bill To Change Law Before It Takes Effect The Foundation for Taxpayer for Consumer Rights, sponsor of last year's California HMO…

Resign, Mr. Quackenbush

Los Angeles Times EditorialLos Angeles Times State Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush still insists that he had the consumer's interests at heart. How…

Davis Opposes Making It Easier For Consumers To Sue HMOs

Los Angeles Times A provision that makes it easier for consumers to sue their HMOs directly for large unreimbursed medical bills and…

HMO Denies 9 Year Old Girl’s Tumor Surgery, Family’s Remedy Limited By Arbitration

Carley Christie- Woodside, CA