California's health insurance regulations -- aligned this year with federal guidelines -- include a requirement that insurers spend at least 80% of…
May 26, 2011Blue Shield, California's largest nonprofit health insurer, releases the salary data in response to a new state law intended to keep healthcare…
May 26, 2011A final federal rule requiring health insurers to reveal and explain double-digit premium rate hikes managed to disappoint both the insurance industry…
May 23, 2011Mobile firms such as Google, Facebook and Apple face growing regulatory scrutiny, with some sort of legislation looking increasingly likely. This was…
May 23, 2011The Politifact Truth-O-Meter Says: "Pants on Fire" "Unions don’t have to comply with Obamacare."
May 23, 2011MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 20 (UPI) -- U.S. technology giant Google Inc. said it is taking a proactive stance against illegal advertising,…
May 20, 2011The new Obama administration rule taking effect in September doesn't allow state regulators to reject rate increases deemed unreasonable, but it requires…
May 20, 2011WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Health insurance plans will have to justify double-digit rate increases in a federal or state rate review process beginning…
May 20, 2011They’re impossible to miss online: all those ads hawking cheap drugs, penny stock fortunes, low mortgage rates and instant wrinkle-zapping solutions. For…
May 19, 2011Health insurers seeking rate increases of 10 percent or more will face increased scrutiny starting in September under rules finalized Thursday by…
May 19, 2011The U.S. government issued a rule Thursday requiring state or federal review of substantial health insurance rate increases for individual and small-group…
May 19, 2011Jamie Court is eating lunch and talking about Google. Or rather, he's speaking voluminously in a rat-a-tat of sentences about the Internet…
May 18, 2011The Federal Communications Commission has waded into the midst of the roiling controversy about location tracking systems built into Apple iPhones and…
May 17, 2011When it comes to chutzpah, health insurance companies take a back seat to no one. To hear them tell it, they're barely…
May 16, 2011The federal government has taken notice of some recent high-profile data breaches, and continues to examine ways to enhance online consumer privacy.
May 13, 2011Click here to listen to audio interviews with Harvey Rosenfield and Mila Kofman.
May 12, 2011Click here to listen to the audio of this broadcast. California Senator Dianne Feinstein and consumer advocacy groups are calling for tighter…
May 12, 2011Consumer advocates expect federal regulators to finalize regulations this month that will allow the Department of Health and Human Services to review…
May 11, 2011