State 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 Watchdog
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Consumer Groups, Quake Survivors Call on Legislators to Enact California Insurance Policyholder Bill of Rights
Senator Escutia Agrees to Author Legislation
Aug 3, 2000
Insurance
Insurance 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, 2000
Insurance
Retired 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, 2000
Insurance
Insurance Post Goes to S.F. Ex-Judge
Davis names Harry Low to succeed QuackenbushSan Francisco Chronicle
Aug 1, 2000
Insurance
Insurance Post Goes to S.F. Ex-Judge
Davis names Harry Low to succeed QuackenbushSan Francisco Chronicle
Aug 1, 2000
Healthcare
Anger 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, 2000
Insurance
Davis 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, 2000
Insurance
HUMAN 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
Healthcare
Guided Imagery May Smooth Road To Recovery
Sacramento Bee Allen Hackett was feeling lousy. Hours earlier, surgeons had transplanted his son's healthy kidney into his abdomen.
Jul 24, 2000
Insurance
The “QuackQuake” is Over, Now the Clean-Up Must Begin
Opinion EditorialSanta Monica Mirror Over six years after the Northridge quake first traumatized L.A., and five, and a half years under Insurance…
Jul 23, 2000
Energy
Lawmakers to Hold Hearing on Utility Bills
Energy: Reacting to complaints about soaring costs in San Diego County, they plan to consider amending, delaying or killing deregulation billLos Angeles…
Jul 21, 2000
Insurance
Corporations Shuffle Patients
The integrity of insurance coverage must be protectedSan Diego Union Tribune Individuals who sit down at their kitchen tables to pick their…
Jul 21, 2000
Energy
Oxy Cashes In On Oil Price Spikes
Los Angeles Times In the first of a series of oil industry reports likely to rekindle consumer charges of profiteering, Occidental Petroleum…
Jul 20, 2000
Energy
Oxy Cashes In On Oil Price Spike
Energy: Soaring Profit Reflects Run- Up In Cost Of Crude Oil From A Year Ago. Other Companies Are Expected To Report Similar…
Jul 20, 2000