Los Angeles, CA – Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara should reject GEICO’s proposed $268 million auto insurance rate hike and its job- and education-based discriminatory rating system, wrote Consumer Watchdog in a petition filed with the California Department of...

Los Angeles, CA – Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara should reject the Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club’s (“Auto Club”) proposed $202 million auto insurance rate hike and its job- and education-based discriminatory rating system under which working-class Californians...

By Marisa Endicott, SANTA ROSA PRESS DEMOCRAT July 24, 2022 https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/your-job-and-education-could-be-determining-your-car-insurance-rate/ I went online last week to get a car insurance quote from Mercury Insurance. I went through the process twice, once listing my occupation as engineer. All the rest of the...

Sacramento, CA – Insurance companies’ illegal use of job and education level to price auto insurance discriminates against lower income drivers and communities of color and must end, Consumer Watchdog will testify at a California Department of Insurance workshop...

Sacramento, CA -- Draft regulations released by the Department of Insurance Thursday move California one step closer to stopping auto insurance discrimination that has allowed insurers to overcharge lower income and minority drivers for decades, said Consumer Watchdog. The...

By Daniel Wilson, LAW360 February 5, 2021 A pair of veterans have hit USAA with a putative class action in California federal court alleging the insurer, which only insures military members, veterans and their families, discriminates against enlisted service members...

Sacramento, CA -- The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) has launched a deceptive website, at http://www.protectourdiscounts.org, and advertising campaign to protect insurers’ ability to continue overcharging lower income and minority drivers for their auto insurance. The lobbying campaign...