Consumer Watchdog

Consumer Groups Blast Quackenbush for Killing Committee and Study on Excessive Auto Rates and Profits

Quackenbush Allows Insurers to Continue Setting Rates Without Standards

Giant 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…

When 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…

ExxonMobil Misleading Full Page Ad

The New York Times

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…

Quackenbush Double-Crosses Consumers on Good Driver Rules

Consumer Group Plans Lawsuit to Invalidate ZIP Code-Based Rating

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…

Quackenbush Proposes Insurance “Jim Crow” Laws

Proposed Regulations Will Lead to Increased Redlining & Discrimination

Los Angeles Times Confirms Loophole in New Auto Rates

Assembly Committee Moves To Reverse Voters

To Make Insurance Commissioner An Appointed Official

What 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…

Consumer Ad Campaign Against $28 Billion Utility Bailout Tax Continues

Utility Company Commences Own Ad Campaign

Nader, California Consumer Advocates Urge Public Opposition to $28 Billion Utility Tax

New Report Shows Insurance Premiums in No-Fault States Continue to Soar

Repealing No Fault Fastest Way To Lower Price of Insurance

Returning Insurance Commissioner To Gubernatorial Appointment Removes People’s Control Over Insurance Rates, Group Says

Legislator Tries To Overturn Prop 103 Reform, Is Challenged

Quackenbush Responsible For Largest Annual Increase in Auto Insurance Premiums Since Passage of 103

Consumers Paying Millions More as Quackenbush Reverses 103 Gains

H.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…

MURDOCH 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,…