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Prescription Sales, Privacy Fears; CVS, Giant Share Customer Records With Drug Marketing Firm
Using technology in a new way to market drugs, CVS Corp. and Giant Food Inc. are sending confidential prescription information to a…
Feb 15, 1998Quackenbush Double-Crosses Consumers on Good Driver Rules
Consumer Group Plans Lawsuit to Invalidate ZIP Code-Based Rating
Jan 29, 1998
The Office of the Elected Insurance Commissioner
In 1988, voter approved Proposition 103 made the California Insurance Commissioner an elective post in order to hold the Commissioner accountable to…
Jan 2, 1998Quackenbush Proposes Insurance “Jim Crow” Laws
Proposed Regulations Will Lead to Increased Redlining & Discrimination
Oct 21, 1997Assembly Committee Moves To Reverse Voters
To Make Insurance Commissioner An Appointed Official
Sep 4, 1997What Is Wrong with California’s 1996 Deregulation Plan
Electricity is too vital to leave in the hands of unregulated power companies. California's 1996 deregulation law took a bad idea and…
Sep 1, 1997Consumer Ad Campaign Against $28 Billion Utility Bailout Tax Continues
Utility Company Commences Own Ad Campaign
Jul 28, 1997New Report Shows Insurance Premiums in No-Fault States Continue to Soar
Repealing No Fault Fastest Way To Lower Price of Insurance
Jul 17, 1997Returning Insurance Commissioner To Gubernatorial Appointment Removes People’s Control Over Insurance Rates, Group Says
Legislator Tries To Overturn Prop 103 Reform, Is Challenged
Jun 11, 1997Quackenbush Responsible For Largest Annual Increase in Auto Insurance Premiums Since Passage of 103
Consumers Paying Millions More as Quackenbush Reverses 103 Gains
Apr 10, 1997H.M.O.’s Using Federal Law To Deflect Malpractice Suits
Health maintenance organizations, which care for more than 60 million people, are telling courts across the country that they cannot be held…
Nov 17, 1996MURDOCH GIVES $1 MILLION TO STATE GOP
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch--already controversial for his political giving--has made personal contributions of $ 1 million to the California Republican Party,…
Oct 27, 1996Insurers Attempt 11th Hour End-Run Around Proposition 103’s Good Driver Reforms
Assemblyman Knowles Flouting the Legislative Process With Last-Minute Amendments to Gut Good Driver Discount
Aug 26, 1996Proposition 200
The 'Pure No-Fault' Initiative, California, 1996 This long (18 pages) and complex ballot initiative, rejected by California voters in 1996, would have…
Jul 1, 1995“The Greenlining Institute”
How A "Minority Organization" Sold Out -- and Got Caught
Dec 13, 1901