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California State Senate Rolls Back Utility Rates to Pre-Deregulation Levels
Adopts Recommendations of Consumer Advocates For Ratepayer Rebellion Adopting the recommendation of consumer advocates and former San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor, the…
Aug 10, 2000Full slate at Capitol as recess concludes: Bills seek to mop up after Quackenbush
Sacramento Bee At least five of the proposals are directly inspired by the scandal that has enveloped former state Insurance Commissioner Chuck…
Aug 7, 2000Hundreds of bills, dozens of fund-raisers set for end of session
Associated Press The legislative equivalent of crunch time starts Monday when lawmakers return from a monthlong recess to decide hundreds of issues…
Aug 6, 2000Hundreds of bills, dozens of fund-raisers set for end of session
Associated Press The scandal surrounding former Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush has increased the likelihood that lawmakers will impose new consumer-friendly controls on…
Aug 6, 2000State Agency Rejects Call For Utility Rollback
Advocates Will Ask For Special Session Of Legislature In the midst of a state-wide energy crisis, and after hearing from consumer advocates…
Aug 3, 2000Consumer Groups, Quake Survivors Call on Legislators to Enact California Insurance Policyholder Bill of Rights
Senator Escutia Agrees to Author Legislation
Aug 3, 2000Insurance Crisis: How Insurance Companies Periodically Disrupt the Economy and Why
The price of all forms of liability insurance (insurance that covers homeowners, businesses and motorists when they hurt others) rose dramatically between…
Aug 1, 2000Retired judge nominated to lead insurance office
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, 2000Insurance Post Goes to S.F. Ex-Judge
Davis names Harry Low to succeed QuackenbushSan Francisco Chronicle
Aug 1, 2000Insurance Post Goes to S.F. Ex-Judge
Davis names Harry Low to succeed QuackenbushSan Francisco Chronicle
Aug 1, 2000Anger From The Coast…California Physicians and Groups Lash Out At HMOs
Modern Physician Physicians in California, like Peter Finch's newsman Howard Beale in the movie Network, are as mad as hell and not…
Aug 1, 2000Davis names retired Judge Harry Low to succeed Quackenbush
Associated 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, 2000Utility Crisis in San Diego Will Spread to Entire State, Consumer Groups Demand Repeal of 1996 Deregulation Law
Emergency Measures Offered, Including Rate Rollback
Jul 28, 2000New Report Uncovers Secret Campaign by Big Tobacco and Other Industries to Restrict Legal Rights
"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, 2000CA Department of Managed Care Urged To Secure Restraining Order Against UnitedHealth’s Patient Sale
he Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights urges the Department to seek a restraining order precluding UnitedHealth Group from selling its patients…
Jul 26, 2000HUMAN GENOME
St. Louis Post Dispatch The announcement of the mapping of the human genome should be met with suspicion as well as hope.…
Jul 25, 2000