Insurance
Insurance Legislation
City News Service A Montebello lawmaker introduced a state bill that would provide $25-a-month auto insurance for low-income drivers.
Jan 13, 1999Consumer Watchdog
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Insurance
Bleak Forecast for Future of Health Care
San Francisco Chronicle As a turbulent decade in American medicine begins its final spin, crystal ball gazers are peering into the future…
Jan 11, 1999
Insurance
Suit Acuses Quackenbush of Inadequate Regulation of Sale of Long-Term Care Policies
Capitol News Service Two senior groups have filed suit against state Insurance Commissioner Charles Quackenbush, claiming he hasn't done enough to enforce…
Jan 8, 1999Hospitals Violating Federal Patient Dumping Laws Should Not Have Limited Liability Under Malpractice Shield
CA Supreme Court Court Asked Not To Protect Hospital
Jan 7, 1999
Insurance
Agency Tells Kaiser that it Must Cover Viagra
San Francisco Chronicle The state Department of Corporations ordered Kaiser Foundation Health Plan yesterday to continue covering Viagra prescriptions, rejecting Kaiser's argument…
Jan 1, 1999
Insurance
Fact Sheet on Insurance Commissioner Quackenbush, 1994-1998
In May 1994, Quackenbush said in a press interview, "You can't take company money from [the insurance industry]. You regulate them. The…
Dec 31, 1998
Healthcare
An Equal Chance: Hospitals Need Backbone to Cut Deals with Health Plan
Los Angeles Times One of the most hard-nosed of all the health plans, Blue Cross of California, has yielded ground in recent…
Dec 31, 1998Suit Alleges Insurance Commissioner Quackenbush Secretly Raising Rates and Slashing Coverage, Costing Consumers Millions
Suit Alleges More than 10,000 Secret Rate Actions in Past Two Years
Dec 15, 1998
Healthcare
California HMOs Offer Safeguard to Patients Denied Treatment
Associated Press Twenty-two California health maintenance organizations, which cover nearly all of the state's HMO members, have agreed to allow patients who…
Dec 4, 1998Sierra Club Condemns Use of Name Against Prop. 9, Demands Retraction
Utility Companies Falsely Claim Sierra Club Opposition to Prop. 9 in S. F. Democratic Club Mailing
Oct 29, 1998
Energy
The High Price of Advocacy
Los Angeles Times My problem, I began, clearly and to the point, is David Horowitz. Not Horowitz in any personal way--I barely…
Oct 28, 1998
Insurance
Insurer agrees to independent review of 9,000 claims from Northridge earthquake
Associated Press Under the settlement signed Friday, the insurer will notify about 9,000 policyholders that they are eligible for independent inspections of…
Oct 26, 1998Former David Horowitz Fans Protest After Tv Personality Receives $106,000 For His Opposition To Prop. 9
Angry Consumers Demand That Utility Spokesman Stop Calling Himself A
Oct 23, 1998Auto Insurers’ Excessive Profits in California Costing Consumers Billions
Failure to Enforce Prop 103 Cost Motorists $5.2 Billion
Oct 21, 1998Prop 9 Supporters Confront Sen. Steve Peace’s Propaganda Production Against Prop. 9
Utilities Hire Sen. Peace's Firm to Produce Propaganda
Oct 20, 1998Former Consumer Reporter Sells His Name And Signature To Utility Company Campaign Against Consumer Prop. 9
David Horowitz Earns $106,000 from Utility-Funded Campaign
Oct 9, 1998