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Los Angeles Times Lawmakers demanded Monday that Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush appear at an April 26 hearing and produce confidential reports his…
Mar 28, 2000Union Tribune EditorialSan Diego Union Tribune State Insurance Commissioner Charles Quackenbush is the poster boy for campaign finance reform in California. Six…
Mar 28, 2000L.A. Times EditorialLos Angeles Times Voters approved Proposition 103, the 1988 insurance reform initiative, in part to break up a cozy relationship…
Mar 28, 2000Associated Presss SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Health maintenance organization patients could not be forced to take their disputes to arbitration instead of court…
Mar 28, 2000San Francisco Chronicle The Legislature left some unfinished business last year when it passed a bill allowing patients to file a claim…
Mar 28, 2000AB 1751 Now Heads To Assembly Floor
Mar 28, 2000Insurers Made Donations to Quackenbush Foundations and Political Committees After Investigations Stopped The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights today requested, under…
Mar 27, 2000New Story & Picture Faxed Daily To Every Legislator The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights today launched an "HMO Arbitration Abuse…
Mar 27, 2000Finance: Funds came from insurers with business before commissioner. The actions are legal, but some decry themLos Angeles Times Insurance Commissioner Chuck…
Mar 26, 2000Firms pay $245,000 to state insurance chiefAssociated Press Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush collected tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from insurance…
Mar 26, 2000The little told story of the true balance of power in American politics is that even when big corporations lose legislatively they…
Mar 23, 2000USA Today Most patients assume that what they tell their doctor is confidential. But it might not be.
Mar 23, 2000Wall Street Journal California SACRAMENTO -- What could possibly have possessed Daniel Zingale to accept -- no, not merely accept but actively…
Mar 22, 2000The consistently high gasoline prices in the California have been blamed on price "spikes" caused by shortages of fuel due to California…
Mar 16, 2000San Francisco Chronicle The consistently high gasoline prices in the Bay Area have been blamed on price "spikes" caused by shortages of…
Mar 16, 2000Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -- After the fiasco that was health-care reform died ignominiously in 1994, legislators still itched to prove they…
Mar 14, 2000In September 1999, California Governor Gray Davis signed Senate Bill 21 (Figueroa), sponsored by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consmer Rights, which…
Mar 7, 2000So much money is invested by politicians and vested business interests in the electoral process these days that it's becoming impossible to…
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