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Lowball: What Fire Survivors Want You To Know About Insurance Claims
As thousands of policyholders navigate the home insurance claims process in California following the Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires, many are finding out that the damage wrought on their still standing homes by smoke and heat isn’t being paid for.
California Senate Committee Advances Bill to Expose Patients to Doctor Substance...
Sacramento, CA – Despite pleas from families throughout California, who have voiced their concerns about exposing patients to substance-abusing doctors, the Senate Business & Professions Committee advanced...
California Oil Refiners’ Gasoline Profit Margin Hit 97 cents Per Gallon...
Sacramento, CA - As oil refiners make a case in Sacramento for a bailout, new data published by the California Energy Commission shows oil...
Legislation Allowing Medical Negligence Survivors To Recover Pre-death Pain And Suffering...
Sacramento, CA – Legislation that allows survivors of medical negligence to continue to recover damages for the pain and suffering of their loved ones before...
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Lowball: What Fire Survivors Want You To Know About Insurance Claims
As of June 2025, all 165 standing homes from which testing data has been collected by the resident-led coalition Eaton Fire Residents United showed...
Dirty Deal: How A Corporate Utility Fixer Is Poised To Turn Over California Climate...
A new investigative report by Consumer Watchdog explains the sudden reversal by electric worker and corporate lobbyist Scott Wetch to support a controversial energy bill...
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By Will McCarthy and CAMILLE VON KAENEL, POLITICO
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Sacramento, CA – Despite pleas from families throughout California, who have voiced their concerns about exposing patients to substance-abusing doctors, the Senate Business & Professions Committee advanced...
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Politico – Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’
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LA Downtown News – When Insurers Were The Good Guys: A long time ago...
By Ellen Snortland, LA DOWNTOWN NEWS
https://www.ladowntownnews.com/opinion/when-insurers-were-the-good-guys-a-long-time-ago-in-a-prairie-far-far/article_37db0b7b-7dd4-4929-9916-a9f6582a82a3.html
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