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Column by Tom Elias, VENTURA COUNTY STAR August 23, 2022 https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/2022/08/23/oil-companies-gouge-us-california-sb-1322-could-bring-accountability/7865035001/ The cheating, price-gouging refiners who produce most California gasoline have won…
Aug 23, 2022By Cari Spencer, KCET PBS-TV Southern California August 16, 2022 https://www.kcet.org/news-community/can-california-redeem-its-landfill-crisis-despite-declining-recycling-rates Last year, Californians sent 4.2 billion more cans and bottles to landfills…
Aug 16, 2022By Andrew Sheeler, Lindsey Holden, and Stephen Hobbs, SACRAMENTO BEE – CAPITOL ALERT August 16, 2022 https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article264432901.html Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, R-San Luis…
Aug 16, 2022By Wes Venteicher, SACRAMENTO BEE August 15, 2022 https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article264461831.html California state agencies will be able to keep deleting emails and other documents…
Aug 15, 2022By Lurah Lowery, REPAIRER DRIVEN NEWS August 15, 2022 CSAA sued for continuing to charge ‘excessive’ premiums throughout pandemic A class action lawsuit…
Aug 15, 2022By Marisa Endicott, SANTA ROSA PRESS-DEMOCRAT August 13, 2022 https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/another-sonoma-county-recycling-center-is-closing-leaving-consumers-with-e/ It soon will get even harder to score a bit of extra…
Aug 13, 2022By Staff Reporters, WORKERS COMPENSATION https://www.workerscompensation.com/news_read.php?id=41708 San Francisco,CA (WorkCompAcademy) – Suspense day” at the California Legislature on Thursday saw several key bills…
Aug 12, 2022By Lyle Adriano, INSURANCE BUSINESS AMERICA August 11, 2022 https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/csaa-faces-lawsuit-over-claims-it-overcharged-auto-insurance-policyholders-150-million-416482.aspx A lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court claims that CSAA –…
Aug 11, 2022By Adam Beam, ASSOCIATED PRESS August 11, 2022 https://apnews.com/article/social-media-california-legislature-f5fd4c8ac90546c506bc3a685ab58b2b California lawmakers on Thursday rejected a proposal that could have forced some popular social…
Aug 11, 2022By Renée Kiriluk-Hill, BESTWIRE August 10. 2022 https://news.ambest.com/NewsContent.aspx?&refnum=243607 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is pumping the brakes on private passenger auto rate…
Aug 10, 2022By Kiera Feldman, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-08-09/edison-tells-utility-customers-new-rate-plan-is-more-expensive-than-advertised As electricity bills rise with the temperature, some Southern California Edison customers are getting an…
Aug 9, 2022By Jacklyn Will, BLOOMBERG LAW https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/cvs-units-must-face-hiv-bias-suit-over-medication-distribution HIV/AIDS patients who object to a CVS Pharmacy Inc. policy limiting where they can receive specialty medications…
Aug 8, 2022By Patrick Hoff, LAW 360 https://www.law360.com/health/articles/1518877/cvs-can-t-escape-hiv-patients-disability-bias-suit CVS Pharmacy can’t avoid a proposed class action alleging its prescription drug benefits program discriminates against people with HIV and AIDS, as…
Aug 8, 2022By Katherine Swartz, USA TODAY August 8, 2022 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/08/senate-republicans-block-insulin-cap-private-insurance/10265453002/ WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats were able to keep the out-of-pocket price for most insulin at $35 per month through the Inflation…
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Late Friday a federal court in San Francisco allowed a case against subsidiaries of CVS Health Corporation brought by HIV-positive “John Doe”…
Aug 8, 2022By Trevor Morgan, SANTA CLARITA VALLEY SIGNAL August 5, 2022 Castaic residents see 1000% increase in fire insurance Residents of a Castaic…
Aug 5, 2022By Lurah Lowery, REPAIRER DRIVEN NEWS August 4, 2022 As auto insurance rates increase, legislative & nonprofit actions crop up There have…
Aug 4, 2022Column by Thomas Elias, THE COAST NEWS August 3, 2022 https://thecoastnews.com/elias-oil-gas-costing-us-more-than-we-thought/ The idea that oil companies and gasoline refiners could gouge Californians…
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