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.
Los Angeles, CA - Anthem Blue Cross's announcement today that it will temporarily suspend a premium increase of up to 39% or…
Feb 14, 2010
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate bill's historic expansion of health care coverage cedes control of a much greater portion of the health…
Dec 24, 2009
California'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, 2009
Washington, D.C. -- A briefly considered “Medicare buy-in” proposal for 55- to 64-year-olds was apparently killed in the Senate this week by…
Dec 17, 2009
Santa Monica, CA -- Opponents of health care reform charged repeatedly this week that the Senate health reform bill would increase individuals’…
Dec 2, 2009
While 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, 2009
Santa Monica, CA – A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge issued a ruling finding that the Schwarzenegger Administration has illegally sided…
Oct 27, 2009
Consumer Watchdog joined with the parents of a 17 year-old who died after her health insurer, CIGNA, denied a liver transplant to…
Oct 8, 2009
Santa Monica, CA -- A trial beginning next week targeting the nation's largest health insurer and its California subsidiary for allegedly automatically…
Oct 7, 2009
It's important to understand what a bill without that public option would actually do. Brave New Films got Jerry Flanagan of Consumer…
Sep 29, 2009
A "framework plan" released today by the so-called "Group of Six" Senators negotiating a health reform bill headed by Senator Max Baucus...
Sep 8, 2009
Insurers Telling Employees To Lobby Lawmakers For Weaker Health Reform, In Likely Violation Of California Labor Code Santa Monica, CA --…
Sep 2, 2009
Santa Monica, CA -- The health insurance purchasing co-ops proposed by Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and a number of Senate conservatives have…
Aug 18, 2009
Click here to listen to the audio of the program. Hundreds of people, from all sides of the political spectrum showed up…
Aug 12, 2009
San Francisco, CA -- A Bay Area man and his thirteen-year-old son urged California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner to protect innocent patients…
Jul 20, 2009
The non-profit Consumer Watchdog and a doctor who works with autistic children are suing the California Department of Managed Health Care. Their…
Jul 1, 2009
Santa Monica, CA -- The mother of an autistic child joined Consumer Watchdog and its attorneys today to announce a lawsuit against…
Jul 1, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The "Blue Dog Coalition," a group of 51 conservative and moderate House democrats who now oppose a strong public…
Jun 10, 2009