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Associated Press The new state Department of Managed Health Care, part of an overhaul of the beleaguered HMO system, opens Saturday, with…
Jun 30, 2000Associated Press A plan to reduce the number of uninsured motorists by lowering premiums in Los Angeles and San Francisco begins Saturday…
Jun 30, 2000CNN -- The World Today While you're on the crowded highways this weekend, you might stop to consider whether the drivers around…
Jun 30, 2000Congratulations. Tomorrow, when the Department of Managed Care becomes the new HMO regulator in California, you will have the opportunity to fulfill…
Jun 30, 2000Historic Insurance Program Will Make Auto Policies Available to Poor
Jun 30, 2000Quackenbush se salva del juicio político, pero continúa la investigación criminalLa Opinión El comisionado de Seguros, Chuck Quackenbush, renunció este miércoles a…
Jun 29, 2000Committee Accepts Key Amendments as Proposed by Consumer Group SB 877 (McPherson), a bill that would curb insurance company practices that seek…
Jun 28, 2000Ottowa Citizen WASHINGTON -- Awe-struck world leaders and scientists compared the completion of the map of the human genetic code to the…
Jun 27, 2000Times EditorialLos Angeles Times The mystery is over. It turns out that the documents that triggered an investigation of state Insurance Commissioner…
Jun 26, 2000Bee EditorialSacramento Bee At the same time legislators express justifiable outrage over the troubling activities of Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, they've taken…
Jun 26, 2000Today's announcement of the mapping of the human genome by a private corporation and a public consortium should be met with suspicion…
Jun 26, 2000Los Angeles Times In the so-called "open access" debate, a multimillion-dollar nationwide lobbying battle pitting cable companies against Internet service providers, Horowitz…
Jun 26, 2000Sacramento Bee Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush has taken campaign contributions at least nine times from companies that were either under investigation or…
Jun 25, 2000She testifies Monday -- Quackenbush aides also subpoenaedSan Francisco Chronicle The woman who has emerged as the key whistle blower in the…
Jun 24, 2000Scandal: Staffer provided documents, saying she could no longer tolerate misconduct.Los Angeles Times A senior lawyer for the state Department of Insurance,…
Jun 23, 2000San Francisco Chronicle Still more questions popping up about Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush's self- serving use of nonprofit "consumer education'' foundations that…
Jun 23, 2000Legislators look at his links to title firmsSan Francisco Chronicle State Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, already in hot water for going soft…
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