Insurance
Are Auto Insurers Charging Immigrants Extra?
It looks like legal immigrants who buy auto insurance in California may be getting a raw deal from at least some insurance…
Apr 21, 2011Judy Dugan
Articles by Judy Dugan
Energy
Is There a ‘Gashole’ in Your Tank?
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Apr 18, 2011
Energy
$4.00 Gas: It’s Not Just the Oil Price
Oil companies are making a fortune off of drivers with oil at $109 a barrel (which comes to $2.60 a gallon at…
Apr 12, 2011
Energy
$4.00 Gasoline: Let’s Bet Against the Future
Monday’s jump in oil prices to more than $108 a barrel, with the price of gasoline above $3.66 a gallon for regular…
Apr 5, 2011
Insurance
Live-Blog from NAIC: A Semi-Victory for Consumers! UPDATED Monday a.m.
Austin, TX --The chairman of the committee that brought forth the so-called broker bill, and swore to pass it, is now backing…
Mar 27, 2011
Insurance
NAIC Liveblog: Will the Real Consumers Please Stand Up?
Austin, TX -- Here at a showdown meeting of state insurance commissioners (Texas is an appropriate showdown spot, no?), I don't know…
Mar 27, 2011
Insurance
Insurance Commissioners Raising Eyebrow About Broker Pay Guarantee
(Austin, TX) The more consumer-friendly state insurance commissioners here at a national meeting are raising eyebrows over attempts to rush a really…
Mar 27, 2011
Privacy
Japan Meltdown: Human Error Starts in the Boardroom
I remember days and nights spent at a rewrite desk in Washington 25 years ago, taking in and editing nearly unbelievable information…
Mar 17, 2011
Energy
As Japan Fears Catastrophe, U.S. Energy Chief Says ‘Don’t Worry’
The news about Japan’s nuclear crisis gets worse with each dribble of information from a reluctant bureaucracy. The chief risk Wednesday was…
Mar 16, 2011
Energy
Refiners Licking Their Chops Over Japan
With perhaps ten thousand lives lost and a nuclear reactor emergency growing daily in Japan, one industry is poised to reap huge…
Mar 15, 2011
Energy
Japan’s Nukes and Refineries: What’s Going Untold
Japan’s struggle to avoid full-on meltdown at nuclear reactors that lost cooling power after the quake. The shutdown of major Japanese oil…
Mar 12, 2011
Video
Consumer Watchdog Says Rising Gas Prices Are Form Of Highway Robbery
On KFMB-TV Channel 8 in San Diego, CA, Judy Dugan from Consumer Watchdog says rising gas prices are a form of highway…
Mar 10, 2011
Energy
Five Actions to Cut Gasoline Prices
An uprising in Libya is not causing your wallet to bleed at the gas pump. The U.S. buys virtually no oil from…
Mar 9, 2011
Energy
Glenn Beck Is Raising Your Gasoline Prices
OK, it’s not all Glenn Beck’s Fault that you’re paying $3.40 or $3.70 or even $4.00 a gallon at the pump. But…
Mar 1, 2011
Energy
Fracking Congress Finally Wakes to Natgas Danger
Congress–or at least a few Democrats in Congress–are at last investigating the explosive and toxic dangers of deep drilling for natural gas–the…
Mar 1, 2011