Plan Seeks To Prevent Conflicts of Interest

Measure LL in Santa Monica Would Prohibit Officials from Accepting Gifts, Money or Jobs from Those Who Benefit From Their Votes.

Los Angeles Times

Voters in Santa Monica and two other California cities will consider a citizen-led ballot measure next week that supporters say would level the playing field of local politics by barring elected officials from accepting gifts, money or jobs from developer

The Causes and Effects of the Price Spike in the Midwest during 2000

Manipulation of Inventories and Creation of Price Spikes

Discrimination and the Gene Code

Kansas City Starr

When I was a student, one of my closer friends was Darryl, a self-described black nationalist who was the crossover candidate for president of the student union at our predominantly white East Coast university.

Observan sucesión de Quackenbush

La Opinion

Organizaciones por los derechos de los consumidores celebran salida del ex titular de Seguros y advierten sobre las características de quien continúe al frente del despacho hasta el 2002

Renuncia el comisionado de Seguros

Quackenbush se salva del juicio político, pero continúa la investigación criminal

La Opinión

El comisionado de Seguros, Chuck Quackenbush, renunció este miércoles a su puesto, tres meses después de haber estallado el mayor escándalo político del gobierno estatal en los últimos años.

Background on Insurance Reform – A Detailed Analysis of California Proposition 103

Excerpted from "Auto Insurance Crisis & Reform", by Harvey Rosenfield, published Fall 1998 in University of Memphis Law Review With the largest concentration of...

After Privacy Flap, a New Name — Other Changes at Prescription-Reminder Firm Less Clear

Two years after Elensys Care Services Inc. ran into an explosion of disapproval over its use of pharmacies' confidential prescription records, the Massachusetts database-management company has taken an unusual approach to public relations.
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File safe? Health records may not be confidential

USA Today

Most patients assume that what they tell their doctor is confidential. But it might not be.

Supreme Court Lukewarn to HMOs Being Sued

Justices Hear Case Challenging Managed Care Industry

San Francisco Chronicle

The Oaks Project and the Taxpayer Protection Amendment of 2000

KPFK - The Lawyer's Guild

Radio program. 35:32

Making A Killing

HMOs And The Threat To Your Health

Girl’s Death to Test Malpractice Award Limits

Mychelle Williams, 18 months old, died of a treatable infection that a simple blood test would have detected

Chiang Letter To CALPERS Re: Chevron

John Chiang, CA Controller

Ultimately, a Healthy Decision At Giant and CVS Pharmacy

First Giant Food Inc. and then CVS Corp. last week terminated agreements with a Massachusetts marketing firm, Elensys Inc., to mail reminders to customers to refill their prescriptions.

The decision to end the agreements is a small...

MTBE Excerpt

Chevron Lied On Prices

Honolulu Star Bulletin

CVS Also Cuts Ties To Marketing Service; Like Giant, Firm Cites Privacy on Prescriptions

CVS Corp. yesterday cut its ties to a Massachusetts marketing firm that reminds customers to refill prescriptions, saying customers complained that the arrangement might erode the confidentiality of their medical information.

The...

Giant Food Stops Sharing Customer Data; Prescription-Marketing Plan Drew Complaints

In response to a deluge of complaints, Giant Food Inc. announced it will no longer send prescription information to a Massachusetts marketing company that tracks customers who don't refill prescriptions.

"The agreement we signed...

When Private Means Private

Does the average person mind when, after having a prescription filled at the pharmacist, he or she starts getting related junk mail from drug companies to which the pharmacy has passed along his or her name, address and medical...

ExxonMobil Misleading Full Page Ad

The New York Times

Prescription Sales, Privacy Fears; CVS, Giant Share Customer Records With Drug Marketing Firm

Using technology in a new way to market drugs, CVS Corp. and Giant Food Inc. are sending confidential prescription information to a Massachusetts company that tracks customers who don't refill prescriptions, a practice that some experts say...

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