Over the past quarter century, auto insurance expenditures in America have risen by more than 40 percent. Consumers in some states are…
Nov 17, 2013
Santa Monica, CA – California drivers insured by Auto Club of Southern California will receive an average rate decrease of 4.1% after…
May 22, 2013
Santa Monica, CA – Mercury Casualty Company must implement an 8% rate decrease to its homeowners insurance rates as required by California…
May 8, 2013Santa Monica, CA –Anthem Blue Cross is again imposing an unreasonable rate increase on its small business customers, and California Insurance Commissioner…
Apr 2, 2013
Yesterday, the insurance sales website Insure.comreleased a poorly constructed and remarkably misleading study on auto insurance rates. (More surprising, perhaps, is the…
Mar 20, 2013
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Feb 13, 2013
Los Angeles, CA – Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, State Farm and Consumer Watchdog jointly announced a $160 million rate cut for State…
Feb 7, 2013
Last month a California Court of Appeal overturned the Superior Court ruling in Streit v. Farmers Group, Inc. and allowed California consumers…
Jan 18, 2013
Santa Monica, CA– A California Appellate Court in Los Angeles will consider a long-running dispute at a Tuesday afternoon hearing about insurance…
Jan 8, 2013
Santa Monica, CA – Anthem Blue Cross plans to go ahead with a 10.6% average annual health insurance rate hike on small…
Jan 8, 2013
As Californian's look at their finances for 2013, several thousand homeowners will see savings on their earthquake insurance premiums. As a result…
Jan 2, 2013
The Consumer Federation of America released a new report today assessing consumer views on the factors insurance companies use to set premiums…
Sep 24, 2012
Santa Monica, CA – The insurance industry proponents of Prop 33 have released their hold on the www.StopProp33.org domain name, which now…
Jul 23, 2012
Santa Monica, CA – The newly numbered Proposition 33, funded by Mercury Insurance's billionaire Chairman George Joseph, is a replay of Mercury's…
Jul 10, 2012
At the beginning of this year the advocates, organizers and lawyers at Consumer Watchdog promised to take on insurance and healthcare companies,…
Dec 31, 2011
It was a shocking figure. Some Blue Shield policyholders were going to pay rate increases of 86%. Consumer Watchdog, together with nurses…
Dec 29, 2011