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San Francisco Chronicle Over the objection of some consumer groups, a plan to return the position of state insurance commissioner to an…
May 18, 2000Associated Press Responding to criticism of elected Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, a state Senate committee has voted to make his job an…
May 18, 2000Sacramento Bee With scandals swirling around state Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, California moved a step closer Wednesday to changing his powerful post…
May 18, 2000San Francisco Chronicle Commentary THE RESULTS of the scandal engulfing Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush should be to penalize any misconduct by the…
May 17, 2000Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury News The state Department of Corporations has assessed a $1 million fine _ one of the largest ever…
May 17, 2000Fee Deals Put Focus On Court ReportersNewsday The notion that parties on both sides of a legal case come before a court…
May 17, 2000San Francisco Chronicle The state agency that regulates health plans says Kaiser Permanente should be fined $1 million for failures in providing…
May 16, 2000National Public Radio All Things Considered ROBERT SIEGEL, host: The state of California has levied one of the largest fines ever against…
May 16, 2000* Biggest Calif. HMO Fine Ever In Individual CaseCBS Evening News LOS ANGELES CBS(CBS) Kaiser Permanente, California's largest health insurer, was slapped…
May 16, 2000Quake Victims, Advocates Oppose Legislation to Bar Election of Insurance Commissioner
May 16, 2000Patients Shouldn't Have To Sign Away Their Right To A Trial In Order To Receive Medical Care Recently, the California Supreme Court…
May 15, 2000Times EditorialLos Angeles Times Amid still more evidence of dereliction, it's clearer that the state insurance commissioner has but one reasonable choice:…
May 15, 20005 PM Friday Fine Keeps HMO Abuses In Dark Governor Davis' Department of Corporations issued a $1 million penalty and a cease…
May 15, 2000Betty Woolfson- Stockton, CA
May 11, 2000Maureen Alexander- Northern California
May 10, 2000Los Angeles Times Defying Gov. Gray Davis, lawmakers Tuesday refused to endorse a bill that consumers say would have gutted one of…
May 10, 2000