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On World AIDS Day, an HIV+ Man Sues Doctor and Medical Group for Discrimination After Refusing to Provide Treatment

December 1, 2020 · Daniel Sternberg

Los Angeles, CA — An HIV positive man filed a discrimination lawsuit in federal court to coincide with World AIDS Day against a surgeon and...

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August 19, 2020 · Evan Thomas King

Consumer Watchdog is a nonprofit, non-partisan consumer research and advocacy organization founded in 1985 by consumer attorney and advocate Harvey Rosenfield. Its mission is to...

Transamerica Settles Lawsuit Concerning Increases in “Cost of Insurance” Charges

April 7, 2020 · Harvey Rosenfield

Los Angeles, CA – Transamerica Life Insurance Company has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of policyholders across the United States...

Why is the Oil Industry Harassing Consumer Watchdog?

January 23, 2020 · Jerry Flanagan

As Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Michael Hiltzik lays out in his column today in the Los Angeles Times, the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have...

Farmers Insurance Is Caught Overcharging Its Most Loyal Customers in Violation of Proposition 103

May 16, 2019 · Harvey Rosenfield

Los Angeles, CA — Farmers Insurance systematically overcharged its most loyal, longtime California customers from 2008 to 2018, according to evidence uncovered as part of an...

Appellate Court Holds Mercury Insurance Accountable for Phony Premium Overcharges

May 7, 2019 · Pam Pressley

Los Angeles, CA — A state Court of Appeal in Orange County has upheld $27 million in civil penalties imposed by former Insurance Commissioner Dave...

Investors Opt Out of Transamerica Class Settlement

February 9, 2019 · Consumer Watchdog

By Donna Horowitz, THE DEAL PIPELINE February 9, 2019 A federal judge has given final approval to a Transamerica Life Insurance Co. class-action settlement for...

Consumers Win Prop 103 Transparency Battle With State Farm Insurance

February 7, 2019 · Harvey Rosenfield

A California court has rejected a request by State Farm, the nation’s largest insurance company, to conceal the financial arrangements between its $168 billion parent...

Aegon Unit Agrees To $195m Settlement Over Universal Life Insurance

October 5, 2018 · Consumer Watchdog

Aegon Unit Agrees To $195m Settlement Over Universal Life Insurance By Staff Writers, VERDICT UK October 5, 2018 https://www.verdict.co.uk/life-insurance-international/news/aegon-settlement-universal-life-insurance/ Transamerica, the US unit of Dutch...