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CVS Also Cuts Ties To Marketing Service; Like Giant, Firm Cites Privacy on Prescriptions
CVS Corp. yesterday cut its ties to a Massachusetts marketing firm that reminds customers to refill prescriptions, saying customers complained that the…
Feb 19, 1998Consumer Groups Blast Quackenbush for Killing Committee and Study on Excessive Auto Rates and Profits
Quackenbush Allows Insurers to Continue Setting Rates Without Standards
Feb 19, 1998Giant Food Stops Sharing Customer Data; Prescription-Marketing Plan Drew Complaints
In response to a deluge of complaints, Giant Food Inc. announced it will no longer send prescription information to a Massachusetts marketing…
Feb 18, 1998When Private Means Private
Does the average person mind when, after having a prescription filled at the pharmacist, he or she starts getting related junk mail…
Feb 18, 1998Prescription 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, 1997