Consumer Watchdog’s President and Chairman of the Board is an award-winning and nationally recognized consumer advocate. Capitol Weekly, naming Jamie to its “Top 100” list of unelected movers and shakers in California politics, wrote, “Court has made a career of battling all comers in the interest of the public, and his take-no-prisoners approach has earned him plenty of enemies.” Jamie’s latest book is The Progressive’s Guide To Raising Hell: How To Win Grassroots Campaigns, Pass Ballot Box Laws And Get The Change You Voted For (Chelsea Green, 2010).
“Americans angry about the state of their government might find in Court’s persuasive manifesto a cause for action,” Publishers Weekly writes. “With great accessibility and a fired-up attitude, Court brings his lessons in empowerment to the people.” He is also the author of Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Freedom And What You Can Do About It (Tarcher Putnam, 2003) and co-author of Making A Killing: HMOs and the Threat To Your Health (Common Courage Press, 1999). Jamie has led dozens of major corporate and political campaigns to reform insurers, banks, technology companies, oil companies, utilities and political practices. He helped to pioneer the HMO patients’ rights movement in the United States, sponsoring successful laws in California and aiding them elsewhere, and was an early champion of many of the most important consumer protections in the federal Affordable Care Act years before they were enacted. In recent years, he has led the campaign to hold California oil refiners accountable for price gouging at the pump which resulted in the toughest oil refinery regulation in America.
A frequent media commentator and op-ed contributor, Jamie is a high-profile and stalwart defender of consumers’ rights. The Los Angeles Times calls him “a tireless consumer advocate.” The Wall Street Journal writes, “He’s notorious for his dramatic, sharp-tongued attacks on the health- and auto-insurance industries, and on any politician who takes their campaign cash.” His public interest career began as an advocate for the homeless and as a community organizer. Jamie’s Alma mater is Pomona College, where he graduated with a BA in History in 1989.
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Jan 8, 2025
Jamie Court believes this plan will make wildfire insurance too expensive to afford.
Jan 4, 2025
Consumer Watchdog says the regulations are seriously flawed. There is no legally binding commitment in this document that they have to cover…
Dec 31, 2024
Consumer Watchdog plans to sue to stop the new regulation as the prices could go up by 40 to 50%
Dec 31, 2024
This was a proposal drafted by a insurance company lobbyists behind closed doors with no public comment. An outrageous abuse public trust.
Dec 31, 2024By Staff Reporters, KNX-AM – Los Angeles, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
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Dec 30, 2024
We have a simple plan for 2025 – build on our victories and defend the hard won rights we’ve already established.
Dec 30, 2024The new draft regulation proposed by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara would allow insurance companies to drive up home insurance rates by 40%…
Dec 30, 2024
We created this short video to celebrate our consumer victories in 2024.
Dec 23, 2024By Staff Reporters, KNX-AM – Los Angeles, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Dec 18, 2024
Over the past five years, KOPE has organized, mentored and trained a cohort of more than 100 patient advocates across the state…
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Dec 12, 2024By Jamie Court, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-12-12/united-healthcare-murder-brian-thompson-luigi-mangione-insurance?sfmc_id=6528256e24b2ea18e6acc0e6&skey_id=a2ea22a3228d0eed959f0cf335b2e3fd227ab44355e88e5bc5bc6e99ea9b5b69&utm_id=37823449 Last week’s shocking killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, Brian Thompson, reopened a national wound inflicted…
Dec 12, 2024
Reducing insurance rates by hundreds of billions of dollars. Lowering gasoline prices. Protecting privacy rights. Holding utilities accountable. Consumer Watchdog’s record has been…
Dec 3, 2024
Los Angeles, CA — The operator of the Inglewood Oil Field has sued to invalidate a new law authored by Assemblymember Isaac…
Nov 27, 2024
Sacramento, CA — Consumer Watchdog and the Container Recycling Institute have petitioned the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to take…
Nov 26, 2024