Harvey Rosenfield
Founder
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.
Articles by Harvey Rosenfield
In The News
Insurance Journal – The Future is Uninsurable? Hardly
By Jerry Theodorou, INSURANCE JOURNAL https://www.insurancejournal.com/blogs/right-street/2024/08/12/788094.htm In recent months the dynamic markings for voices asserting the insurance industry is not up to…
Aug 13, 2024
Audio
KPCC-FM (Radio) – Los Angeles, CA: Harvey Rosenfield In Opposition Of Governor Newsom’s Draft Of Insurance Bill
By Staff Reporters, KPCC-FM – Los Angeles, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment. Part 1 Part 2
May 30, 2024
Blogs
Commissioner’s Secret Cat Model Plan
Imagine if the IRS were allowed to base your taxes on its own “projections” of your income. And you were not allowed…
May 2, 2024
In The News
KGO-SF (ABC) – San Francisco, CA: Allstate Eyes California Return, With Conditions
Harvey Rosenfield says insurance companies are permitted for the first time in California to use computer models that are black box models…
Apr 26, 2024
In The News
FOX 11- Los Angeles, CA: State Farm dropping policies in these California ZIP codes
Last month, State Farm Insurance announced it would be dropping thousands of California policies beginning this summer, nearly a year after announcing…
Apr 10, 2024
In The News
KPIX-SF (CBS) – San Francisco, CA: Homeowner Insurance Crisis
Harvey Rosenfield, founder of consumer watchdog, says the insurance companies are intentionally forcing homeowners into the fair plan as a way of…
Mar 26, 2024
In The News
KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: State Farm to Non-Renew Thousands of Policies
State Farms last big rate increase came just last week, assuming that they sell insurance policies to people who need it in…
Mar 21, 2024
In The News
KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: Using Models To Predict Insurance Rate Hikes
Harvey Rosenfield of Consumer Watchdog says this new plan would allow the insurance companies to propose these models without public scrutiny, and…
Mar 18, 2024
In The News
Los Angeles Times – He claims to have saved California homeowners billions. The insurance industry hates him
By Sam Dean, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-03-01/consumer-watchdog-insurance-industry-harvey-rosenfield Insurance industry groups have called it a “bomb-throwing bogus advocacy” group, a “publicity-seeking, dark money…
Mar 1, 2024
In The News
KPCC-FM (Radio) – Los Angeles, CA: Harvey Rosenfield Recommends Documenting Everything During A Natural Disaster
By Staff Reporters, KPCC-FM – Los Angeles, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Feb 8, 2024
Accountability
KFBK-AM (Radio) – Sacramento, CA: AT&T Officials Say Landlines Are A Historical Curiosity and Are No Longer Needed
By Staff Reporters, KFBK-AM – Sacramento, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Feb 8, 2024
In The News
KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: State Farm Has Been Granted An Average Of 20% Increase In Rate Hikes
Consumer Watchdog says on top of the 20% average increase homeowners will pay state farm, renters will pay 11% more.
Jan 4, 2024
In The News
KPIX-SF (CBS) – San Francisco, CA: State Farm Home Insurance Rate Hike
Harvey Rosenfield says insurance companies are holding us all hostage to this demand for higher rates and less regulation.
Jan 4, 2024
Audio
KCBS-AM (Radio) – San Francisco, CA: Harvey Rosenfield Discusses Why Insurance Companies Need To Justify Their Rate Hikes
By Staff Reporters, KCBS-AM – San Francisco, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Dec 29, 2023