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Sacramento 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
Jul 19, 2000The sale of "covered lives," as patients are called in the industry, without the sale of a company, a bankruptcy, or a…
Jul 18, 2000Group Calls For Executive Order Implementing "All Or Nothing Policy" The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) wrote President Clinton today…
Jul 18, 2000San Diego Union-Tribune The 225,000 members of United Healthcare, a subsidiary of the United Health Group, will be moved to Blue Shield…
Jul 15, 2000UNITED HEALTHCARE, BLUE SHIELD IN DEALSacramento Bee The nation's No. 2 health insurance company plans to pass off about 225,000 members to…
Jul 15, 2000State Regulators Must Step In And Stop Bait & Switch Deal
Jul 14, 2000BestDay News Settlements made between former California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush and insurers accused of mishandling Northridge earthquake claims should be thrown…
Jul 11, 2000Long-term contract would lock in pricesSan Diego Union Tribune The proponents of electrical deregulation in California -- who promised that open markets…
Jul 8, 2000Sacramento Bee Former Deputy Insurance Commissioner George Grays will tell federal and state investigators that Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush personally quarterbacked efforts…
Jul 7, 2000Interim insurance chief vows restored trustSacramento Bee In a move intended to douse lingering whiffs of scandal at the Department of Insurance,…
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