By Pat Thurston, KCBS - Los Angeles, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

By Jeff McDonald, THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2023-02-28/consumer-watchdog-appeal-insurance-records-lara The Los Angeles advocacy group that unsuccessfully sued California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and the Department of Insurance over their refusal to turn over documents they said were exempt from public...

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By Staff Reporters, KNX - Los Angeles, CA February 25, 2023 Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

By Timothy Darragh, BEST WIRE https://news.ambest.com/newscontent.aspx?AltSrc=104&RefNum=248090 A proposed increase in rates for Medical Insurance Exchange of California has become a 7.2% decrease after intervention by the California Department of Insurance and Consumer Watchdog. In November 2020, the member-owned medical liability company applied...

Major car insurers are asking for rate hikes up to 6.9%.

By Staff Reporters, KCBS - San Francisco, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

The state insurance Commissioner has approved some big rate hikes. Most recently, a 6.9 % increase for Triple-A which insures about 1.4 million Californians that rating.

By Ronald D. White, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-02-21/geico-allstate-start-california-car-insurance-rate-increases-more-ahead Some California drivers will be getting a nasty surprise when they open their car insurance bills this year. That's because California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved some big rate hikes in the...

By Dan Walters, CAL MATTERS https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/02/could-public-records-act-be-made-more-useful/ California's Public Records Act, signed by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1968, gives the public the legal right to examine governmental documents, with a few specified exceptions. The state's voters bolstered the PRA in 2004 by...