Harvey Rosenfield

As Consumer Watchdog’s founder, Harvey Rosenfield is one of the nation’s foremost consumer advocates. Trained as a public interest lawyer, Rosenfield authored Proposition 103 and organized the campaign that led to its passage by California voters in 1988 despite over $80 million spent in opposition (still a record).

He has co-authored groundbreaking initiatives on HMO reform and utility rate deregulation (Proposition 9, 1998). Rosenfield is the author of the book, Silent Violence, Silent Death: The Hidden Epidemic of Medical Malpractice.

Rosenfield, who established Consumer Watchdog in 1985, has worked for the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Congress, in private practice, as a staff attorney for Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen Congress Watch and as the Program Director for the California Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG).

Rosenfield graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College and obtained a joint Law and Masters degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Harvey Rosenfield
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KCBA (FOX) – Monterey, CA: Video Prompts Investigation Into State Farm

After two years of watching State Farm and other insurance companies gradually withdraw from neighborhoods all over the state, telling people, we're not going to renew your policy and claiming that the reason was that they needed relief from regulation of their rates, now we see that what really was behind it was a move by the State Farm to pressure the insurance commissioner into giving them massive rate increases.

KCBA (FOX) – Monterey, CA: State Farm Could Face Civil and Criminal Repercussions

Harvey Rosenfield says the next step here should be that the attorney general of California investigate state farm for what it says it's doing here, because that's a violation of the antitrust laws.

KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: Calls For Investigation Into State Farm Insurance

Consumer watchdog, found the video concerning enough to write an open letter to the california insurance commissioner asking for an investigation.

KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: Understanding Your Home Insurance Policies

Two things people should do is make sure that your insurance policy is up to date and that the cost of rebuilding or replacing is fully covered within the policy. Secondly, take a video of your every piece of part of your home, of the contents of the home, the interior and exterior so you can document it if you've had a loss.

KPIX-SF (CBS) – San Francisco, CA: State Farm Rate Hike Request

State Farm is trying to take advantage of this tragedy to say they need an immediate emergency rate increase of 22%, which could be three quarters of a billion dollars.

KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: Challenges of Getting Affordable Insurance In CA

Harvey Rosenfield says consumers have been losing coverage as the industry tries to adjust to year after year of catastrophic wildfires. 

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