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San 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, 2000Assembly committee rejects effort to deter patients from suing to recover medical costsSan Francisco Examiner SACRAMENTO - Democrats in the Legislature have…
May 10, 2000Consumer Group Says Other States Should Follow Suit
May 10, 2000On Tuesday, the Assembly Judiciary Committee defeated a bill backed by Governor Davis to narrow the scope of California's HMO liability law.
May 10, 2000Zakary Ostertag- Vacaville, CA
May 9, 2000Calls for Court-Appointed "Special Master" to Oversee Insurance Claims Mishandling, Payments
May 8, 2000HMO-backed Bill To Change Law Before It Takes Effect The Foundation for Taxpayer for Consumer Rights, sponsor of last year's California HMO…
May 8, 2000