Board Set To Discipline License of Repeat Offender Doctor Bakersfield, CA – The Osteopathic Medical Board of California (OMBC) and the Attorney General’s office filed...

San Diego, Simi Valley, Latest to Face Closures Sacramento, CA – Assemblymember Akilah Weber’s bill, AB 1895 requiring the state to conduct community impact assessments before...

Los Angeles, CA – As the Medical Board of California meets in Los Angeles today, Consumer Watchdog released a Consumer Alert video notifying the...

 Sacramento, CA – The Osteopathic Medical Board of California (OMBC) announced at their January Quarterly Board meeting that for the first time they will consider...

Sacramento, CA – Consumer advocates will address the Medical Board of California at a public hearing today to persuade the Board to follow the law...

Sacramento, CA – California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation containing reforms long sought by patient advocates that will increase families’ voice in medical board...

Sacramento, CA – Patients will have a greater voice in investigations into harm caused by a doctor under legislation California lawmakers sent to the governor...

Sacramento, CA – Legislation to improve oversight of dangerous doctors and give consumers rights at the Medical Board of California was approved by the California...

Sacramento, CA – Legislation to improve physician oversight and give consumers rights at the Medical Board of California was approved by the state Senate 32-1...

Public Control, Mandatory Patient Interview, Among Bill’s Consumer Protections  Sacramento, CA – Legislation to strengthen consumer protections and improve physician oversight at the Medical Board...

Kern County, CA – Supervisor Leticia Perez and the Kern County Board of Supervisors will proclaim May 2023 to be Latina Maternal Health Awareness...

Sacramento, CA – Proposed legislation would enact important changes to hold dangerous doctors more accountable in California, but excludes crucial reforms that will continue threaten...

San Diego, CA -- Patients in California are exposed to harm by dangerous doctors because California law does not quickly discipline or require them to...

Initial findings of the Medical Board Enforcement Monitor, released this week, confirm that the Medical Board’s investigations of doctors are hamstrung by funding shortfalls and that prosecutions are undermined by a crippling division between investigators and attorneys housed in different agencies.

Los Angeles, CA— Patient advocates today will call on the Medical Board of California to reform a physician oversight process that shuts out patients, prioritizes secrecy and ultimately fails to adequately protect patients from doctors who cause harm.

Sacramento, CA – Consumer Watchdog and California families harmed by medical negligence applauded Governor Newsom’s historic signature today on legislation to update California’s 47-year-old medical malpractice damage cap and restore injured patients’ access to justice.

Los Angeles, CA – Consumer Watchdog and California families harmed by medical negligence applauded today’s historic 60-0 Assembly vote to update California’s 47-year-old medical malpractice damage cap and restore injured patients’ access to justice.

Kern County, CA – Supervisor Leticia Perez and the Kern County Board of Supervisors will proclaim May 2022 to be Latina Maternal Health Awareness Month...

Los Angeles, CA - The California families harmed by medical negligence who launched the Patients for Fairness coalition (http://www.patientsforfairness.org) responded favorably to news of...

Los Angeles, CA – Assemblymember Bill Quirk and the California State Assembly Committee on Business and Professions took an unprecedented step today to restore the...