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Measure Would Expand Patients' Ability to Sue - Previous Attempt was Beaten Back by Former Gov. Wilson, Insurers, and EmployersLos Angeles Times…
Apr 7, 1999CA Bill Gives All Patients the Right-to-Sue that Public Officials Now Have
Apr 6, 1999Poll Shows 66% of Small Bix Executives Support Right-to-Sue Your HMO Bill
Apr 6, 1999Legislation To Ensure Only Doctors Who Examine Patients Make Decisions
Mar 31, 1999New York Times In the latest legal attack on managed health care, a consumer advocacy group asked a California court this week…
Mar 18, 1999Journal of Commerce A new study shows that in this decade California's auto insurers decreased the number and dollar amount of claims…
Mar 17, 1999Los Angeles Times A consumer advocacy group sued Kaiser Foundation Health Plan over a television advertising campaign in which the nonprofit health…
Mar 17, 1999Doctors Not In Charge Of Care, As Ads Contend
Mar 16, 1999Associated Press An unprecedented state survey released Friday suggests that insurance redlining exists in California's low-income and minority neighborhoods, where fewer people…
Mar 12, 1999Sacramento Bee A consumer group, pushing to reinstate a controversial law that would allow more lawsuits against insurance companies, charged Tuesday that…
Mar 10, 1999Profits Reached Record Highs In The State As Settlements To Accident Victims Dropped, Group Finds; Industry Officials Defend Trend, Saying Lower Rates…
Mar 10, 1999Insurers Are Paying Less Since Accident Victims Lost Their Rights
Mar 9, 1999City News Service Motorists and others injured in auto accidents have received steadily lower payments from insurance companies since a 1988 state…
Mar 9, 1999Critics Question Timing of 4-Year Study's ReleaseSan Francisco Chronicle Auto insurance rates have dropped an average of 11.3 percent in California during…
Feb 25, 1999States Say its the Biggest Four-Year Decline Ever; Consumer Advocates Complain that Savings Should Be Even GreaterLos Angeles Times Auto insurance rates…
Feb 25, 1999The Recorder Richard Huber made that mistake in a story published Jan. 22 in The Hartford Courant, two days after jurors in…
Feb 23, 1999