Jerry Flanagan is Consumer Watchdog's Litigation Director. Flanagan leads Consumer Watchdog’s litigation efforts in the areas of health insurance coverage and access to treatments. He has over 20 years experience working in public interest and health care policy, legislation and litigation.
This week Consumer Watchdog's legal team called on Farmers Group, Inc. to disclose how it plans to spend up to $400 million…
Apr 15, 2011
Today Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik takes a hard look at a proposed settlement in a lawsuit against Farmers Insurance opposed…
Mar 31, 2011
David Lazarus' column in the Los Angeles Times (see below) reports that on May 1st, Blue Cross will dramatically increase the annual…
Mar 11, 2011
There were twenty-five lawyers in gray suits waiting in a Los Angeles Superior Court courtroom yesterday afternoon when I walked in to…
Mar 3, 2011On Other Key Issues, Ruling Leaves Autistic Children at Risk; Brown Administration Urged to Take Action A Los Angeles County Superior Court…
Jan 5, 2011We have cleared the final hurdle before going to trial next Monday on our suit against the Department of Managed Health Care…
Dec 10, 2010
Ever play a game with a poor loser who tries to change the rules when the chips are down? The Department of…
Nov 19, 2010
Why don't 50 million Americans have the same rights as other patients to hold their health insurer accountable for denials of care?…
Nov 9, 2010
What does “health care reform” promising “access” to health care services really mean if children can be denied the medical care they…
Nov 4, 2010Even before the historic national health care reform bill takes effect, there's concern some provisions could hurt California consumers. Consumer advocates worry…
Mar 23, 2010Modesto Assemblyman Tom Berryhill (R) has introduced a bill that would allow insurers to drop some four-dozen coverage mandates. These include overnight…
Mar 11, 2010WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate bill's historic expansion of health care coverage cedes control of a much greater portion of the health…
Dec 24, 2009California's Democratic delegation in the House is raising concerns that the federal health reform package could derail some of the state's consumer…
Dec 22, 2009While Intuit's new software is consumer-friendly, Consumer Watchdog's Flanagan warns that such easy-pay products miss the real problem for health care consumers:…
Nov 10, 2009It's important to understand what a bill without that public option would actually do. Brave New Films got Jerry Flanagan of Consumer…
Sep 29, 2009Click here to listen to the audio of the program. Hundreds of people, from all sides of the political spectrum showed up…
Aug 12, 2009The non-profit Consumer Watchdog and a doctor who works with autistic children are suing the California Department of Managed Health Care. Their…
Jul 1, 2009At a time when more people are forced to buy their own health insurance because of job losses, costs for many individual…
Feb 20, 2009